How Does Randy's Character Change
The life of every character in Alas, Babylon is disrupted and changed as a result of the nuclear attack. In the story Alas, Babylon all the characters changed but one of them in particular changed the most. Even if they changed since before the day or if they have changed their whole life style, they have changed. As the novel progresses, he gradually changes from a playboy bachelor with a trust fund into a hardened leader. The character that has changed the most is Randy Bragg.
To begin with, Randy Bragg was a lazy man who just sat around drinking and spying on Florence’s pets all day. All of his habits changed when the bomb hit. Randy had to sacrifice everything. He had to sacrifice his alcohol and his food so they could survive this terrible time. Randy had changed into a better person as time went on. Immediately, he became strong and the leader, not only of the household, but also of the town. The change of his attitude was brought on from the way he acted in emergencies and how he could handle everything in such a subtle manner. …show more content…
Randy was a changed man in everyone's eyes including his own. He worked really hard to protect his own people. A major theme of the novel is survival. “Survival of the fittest... The strong survive. The frail die. The exotic fish die because the aquarium isn’t heated. The common guppy lives. ...That’s the way it is and that’s the way it’s going to be” (Frank 175). Randy knows that civilization had to be rebuilt, although it will not be easy, cut off as they were from needed goods and services deep inside a contaminated zone. Necessity being the mother of the invention, he and the other characters find new food sources and alternative ways to get things done. “The struggle was not against a human enemy, or for victory. The struggle, for those who survived “The Day”, was to survive the next” (Frank
To begin with, Randy Bragg was a lazy man who just sat around drinking and spying on Florence’s pets all day. All of his habits changed when the bomb hit. Randy had to sacrifice everything. He had to sacrifice his alcohol and his food so they could survive this terrible time. Randy had changed into a better person as time went on. Immediately, he became strong and the leader, not only of the household, but also of the town. The change of his attitude was brought on from the way he acted in emergencies and how he could handle everything in such a subtle manner. …show more content…
Randy was a changed man in everyone's eyes including his own. He worked really hard to protect his own people. A major theme of the novel is survival. “Survival of the fittest... The strong survive. The frail die. The exotic fish die because the aquarium isn’t heated. The common guppy lives. ...That’s the way it is and that’s the way it’s going to be” (Frank 175). Randy knows that civilization had to be rebuilt, although it will not be easy, cut off as they were from needed goods and services deep inside a contaminated zone. Necessity being the mother of the invention, he and the other characters find new food sources and alternative ways to get things done. “The struggle was not against a human enemy, or for victory. The struggle, for those who survived “The Day”, was to survive the next” (Frank