Independent Reading Post #6

Guess why the author included some parts and excluded some other parts ?

In the book, Back from Tuichi, it starts off of a four people trying to survive as a group and they encounter breaking point. I was wondering why the author did not equally touched every plots of every character. Instead, the author only focused on Ghinsburg, and the plot of other characters such as Marcus and Kevin slowly deteriorated.

I think its because in order to touch fully the mental state of one's character in a survival mode, It would be too hard to equally distribute all four characters. But I still think that if the author succeeded to catch all four characters mental state, by providing different 'colors' to each characters, it would be really exciting. For example, that Kevin may failed to keep strong mind and becomes mentally ill and eventually commits suicide, while Marcus and Karl meets one of the natives there, and Marcus finds peace and decided to stay there, and Karl leaves. However, Karl takes something important for the natives and the natives kill Marcus. Karl left out in deadly forest, have reunion with Ghinsburg, and fails to understand Ghingburg's strong sprituality, and die.