Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank, illustrates genuine examples of how superior
             creatures survive and the weaker perish. Those who sufficiently responded to this difficult
             challenge set before them were Randy Bragg, Dan Gunn, Alice Cooksey, and Florence
             Wechek. Those individuals who were unsuccessful with this devastating feat were Edgar
             Quisenberry, Bubba Offenhaus, Pete Hernandez, and Porky Logan. During this period
             those animals that become savage beasts and would do anything for food survived, while
             the animals that were controlled by humans did not.
             Randy Bragg is a natural leader and a quick thinker and he had his mind set that
             he was going to live even if he had to fight for his life. "We're going to have to be tough,
             we are going to have to be catfish" (Ch.7). The community's doctors had either been
             killed or vanished and Dan Gunn, now the only physician in Fort Repose, tried to help
             everyone who was sick and this made him survive because he knew the people of the
             community needed is capabilities. After being beaten by the highwaymen he shows how
             strong and how much will power to survive he had by walking miles to the Bragg
             household. Fort Repose's librarian, Alice Cooksey, had the strength to keep on living
             because she knew that the library was the only source of learning for the people and
             especially the children. "She felt fulfilled, even important" (Ch.8). Florence Wechek, "a
             guppy, a nice, drab little guppy " in the eyes of her pier Randy Bragg (Ch.7). The analysis
             made by Randy Bragg was correct in the sense that Florence relating to the guppy was
             willing to do what she had to serve the community and survive.
             The President of the Fort Repose Bank became a massive position after The Day.
             Edgar Quisenberry was a coward because he couldn't face the facts; he couldn't bare a
             world that didn't use any type of currency and he wouldn't allow himself to be humiliate
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