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His chances of making it to the 21st century seem remote, but I’m pulling for him anyway.

examines a classic childhood terror: What happens when you have no parents or adults to take care of you?evokes a more complex, adolescent fear—the realization that the adults in your life don’t know everything and you can’t always count on them. At first, even after he loses his leg, Ben attempts to sustain his leadership role, teaching the girls basic survival skills and how to hunt.

But as it becomes clear they aren’t going to be rescued any time soon, his tenuous authority evaporates, like a nightmare version of the hapless teacher getting rolled by his students. He tells Laura Lee she can’t fly the plane; she does anyway and dies in a ball of flame. He tells the girls that no one is being sent outside to sleep during Shauna and Jackie’s fight, but Jackie goes anyway, and freezes to death.

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