Crake

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Don't you think the cover is SO cute.

[♥ Rebecca ♥]

What was up with Crake? I still dont know. Were we supposed to figure it out? Was it in there somewhere? I didnt see it.

[Adria]

Well, I think he spent his time plotting and scheming. The created his perfect beings, that he thought better fit that humans to inhabit this earth. So therefore, he caused an epidemic by planting it in the sex pills, and wiped everyone out. Well everyone except Jimmy, who he believed could guide his Crakers.So I guess he felt humans were unfit to live on this planet?

[Martha☀]

I don't believe that Jimmy was left alive to guide the Crakers. The Crakers have little use for Snowman/Jimmy and could continue to live without him.
I think that Crake kept Jimmy alive as punishment for having loved Oryx behind Crake's back. To me, the tale is about a love triangle and revenge.

[Darryl]

Crake kept Jimmy alive for he was the only one he truly knew and trusted, needing someone to guide the new people Crake bio-engineered. He wanted someone to watch over them in case he was needed. The revenge aspect was Crake against the corporation that did his father wrong.

[Adria]

Darryl wrote: "Crake kept Jimmy alive for he was the only one he truly knew and trusted, needing someone to guide the new people Crake bio-engineered. He wanted someone to watch over them in case he was needed. ..."

I agree with that definitely. Because before he killed Oryx he said to Jimmy, "I'm counting on you." But I am just wondering why he killed Oryx? I don't know whether he deemed her unfit to live in his "new world" or did he really just not want Jimmy to have her?

[Darryl]

It has been a while since I read the book but didn't she get infected by accident and killing her spared her the pain of suffering through the virus?

[Adria]

Oh right, I forgot about that, you're that does make sense.

[Jesse]

*SPOILERS*

I found something in the text that no one else seems to have noticed.

Consistently, Crake is shown to have little or no emotions.

At first it seems like this is just typical of someone so intelligent and scientific, but upon the books ending it dawned on me that perhaps there was more going on.

Crake exhibit's no remorse, no sympathy, and no empathy. He kills the girl he loves, he tries to kill his best friend, and he intentionally tries to destroy humankind.

This kind of personality is typical of someone who is a psychopath.

[Klavdija]

I agree, Crake is definitely a psychopath.
I also think that Crake killed his mother and Uncle Pete, possibly even his father. He was developing this virus, and he needed test subjects. Note how his mother died pretty much the same as the ones infected later. She dissolved, and all that Crake said about it was that "it was impressive".
As for Crake's dad, he supposed to have fallen off the overpass, because "he was kind of uncoordinated." In the novel, right after the part when Crake tells Jimmy about it, Snowman reflects on it and says: "How could I have missed it? ... What he was telling me. How could I have been so stupid?" I realize this is very vague, but what else could he have missed?
This is all just a theory, though. :)