Jim Garrison’s Reviews > Wool Omnibus > Status Update

The setting of Wool is a post apocalyptic world centuries after our time. All known human species are living in one shelter that contains many stories with thousands of people. The idea of talking about going outside is not in everyone's moral universe. The thought of having a life in the cold, hazardous lands outside is unheard of. A few have expanded this universe to want to know the mysteries of the outside world.

The author writes this book to include flash backs to gain a better understanding of the background of the story. Each chapter will usually alternate between a characters background and how they came to be. It explains their point of view and gives the reader a look at how the setting affects different characters. It switches from characters present point of view to another characters past point of view.

The tone of the book is ominous and hostile. The setting is described as dreary and lonely several times in the book. The people are described with an indirect and somber view. The book describes few men and women in detail and even their background is vague. The author goes all the way to have the characters describe other characters in a confused and moody. This further describes the characters with a ominous tone.

The tone of the book is ominous and hostile. The setting is described as dreary and lonely several times in the book. The people are described with an indirect and somber view. The book describes few men and women in detail and even their background is vague. The author goes all the way to have the characters describe other characters in a confused and moody. This further describes the characters with a ominous tone.

In my book I am finding it hard to pick up the book and keep reading. The book is characterizing the people and building the setting in your mind in a very melancholy style. The entire first chapter is describing how this man's wife was banned outside and died by herself. The author managed to take this moment and stretch it into an 18 page chapter that left me void of wanting to keep reading.

The outside of the fortress that is inside the story of wool is a gray bleak landscape. The gray symbolizes nothingness, emotionless, dull, and even dirty. No one who goes outside lives and that gives it its color. The archetype number would be one. There isn't one society left and they are unified under one roof. Everyone works together with unity and sanctity.

The archetype of this story is overcoming the monster. The monster, being society, holds everyone down into a bunker. The air outside the earth became inhabitable forcing everyone underground. This created a depressing and separated society that the protagonist must overcome. Rules start to form that handicaps the citizens. They aren't allowed to speak or mention going outside or else they get what they wished for.