Wayward: Analysis post

So far in this book, we have been introduced to a small town, set back in the woods. this town is circled by an electric fence, overwatch marksmen, and pale, grueling beasts. Being the second book in the series, Already know why this is like this but in this post I am focusing on the thoughts of one of the marksmen. using this thought we can assume what life is like outside of the town. It's not fun. this quote is describing his thoughts on the "Townies". "He didn't hate them. He didn't want their life. He had long ago accepted his role as protector. Guardian. Home was sterile, windowless room inside a mountain, and he had made as much peace with that fact as a man could hope to make. But that on a lovely morning as he gazed down in to what was literally the last vestige of paradise on the face of the earth, there wasn't a pang of nostalgia. Of homesickness for what had one been". Reading this quote we can clearly tell that he misses being in the town but he finds it better to know the truth of the outside world and what the earth is really like.