Chaos

Everything is coming together. I was very shocked to find out that Crake meant for everything to happen. He purposely planted the infection in his pills so that essentially the human race would be wiped out, except for Jimmy.

It is somewhat irritating how the book never fully explains why Crake did it, but I think that is because Jimmy never truly knows why he did. I think it is because Crake wanted the world to be run fully by his Crakers. I think he knew that humans would continue to destroy the world, so he decided to 'play god' and make the world a better place. If that was his logic, then I do not understand why he did not want to be there for himself instead of enlisting Jimmy with the Crakers.

Then this poses another question; did he expect Jimmy to shoot him? If he did, then he must of known about Oryx and Jimmy's affair. If he did not, then he must have thought Jimmy would not care if he killed Oryx in front of him.

When Jimmy is alone, playing over the events that have entailed in his mind, one of his thoughts really stuck out to me, "How long had he been planning this? Could it be that Uncle Pete, and possibly even Crake's own mother, had been trial runs? With so much at stake, was he afraid of failure, of being just one more incompetent nihilist?" (Atwood 409).

Nihilist: Someone who rejects theories of morality or religious beliefs.

It really stuck out to me because the doctors could never explain Crake's mothers death, and Uncle Pete suddenly dies too. If they both died from a mysterious infection, Crake could have used them as a trial to test out what his microbes were capable of.

But why his family? This is why another one of Jimmy's thoughts stuck out to me, "Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honorable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?" (Atwood 409).

Maybe Crake was just a psychopath.