Prey #3

" I felt a wave of nausea. My knees buckled. I sagged against the wall. I looked at Mae and Ricky through the second glass doors; they seemed far away. As I watched, they receded even farther, moving away into the distance. Soon they were too far away for me to worry any longer. I knew I was dying. As I closed my eyes, I fell to the ground, and the roar of the air handlers faded into cold and total silence."(pg. 169)

I do not feel bad for Jack's near death experience. It is clear that he tried to be a hero, and he nearly died from his ignorance. He believed that the nano- particles weren't actually coordinated, and that it was just a figment of the other worker's imagination. He also that he would be able to outsmart the nano-particles, and that they were like a dog chasing a stick which was clearly not true. I find it truly incredible that the nano- particles were able to somehow sense that Jack's destination was to get to the door and evade the predator. Jack also believed that it was not actually the intention of the swarm to kill the rabbit, and that it was more of an accident. He thought it was an accidentally killing of the rabbit, and that the nano-particle's just blocked it's way of breathing. The nano-particle's are also able to see movement, because they were originally designed to be small cameras to be used in the war. I believe it will be very difficult to take down this PREDPREY program, because it is rapidly adapting and the thing even reproduces itself. If they cannot stop a small swarm how are they going to be able to deal with this when it reproduces and there are thousands of them. The purpose of this passage is for the reader to realize that this will be no easy win for the humans, and that PEOPLE, not just little bunnies will be killed by these black clouds. What it means to be human in this book is to be able to do things independently, and in this case the nano-particle's are almost human like because they can do that.