I am quite confused about a lot of things in the novel so far, but one thing is on the top of my list; the people in the wasteland besides Snowman. There are the children of Crake, and there are these other adult beings. Snowman describes both as perfect, and alien like. So, who are these people, where did they come from, and why is there no other humans like Snowman?
Snowman gives little information about how he has become to living in a tree, but there are a few hints here and there. Whenever he thinks about exploring more of the land, he thinks about how there were a lot of raids at one point, and how people had to leave quickly, so there are some supplies left were people used to live, and nothing in others.
When Snowman thinks of the past, it has been about his childhood and adolescents, rarely about his adulthood. His frequent visits to the past could end up in the present at some point though.
I also find it strange how Snowman is the leader of these people. He is viewed as a sort of godly figure in their eyes. They are constantly asking him questions about their past, and Snowman makes up stories that they believe, but leaves the reader guessing on what is truth. Which must mean that these people have absolutely no prior knowledge to what the world was once like.
I do have some predictions though. When he talks about the world he is in now, he brings up Crake a lot. He talks about how they socialized these people together and seems to blame Crake for a lot that has happened. So, I predict that the world, or this part of the world that Snowman lives in, became a wasteland because of Crake. I think it has a lot to do with genetic altering too. That would explain why the people and the children of Crake are not human like. Maybe Crake was doing some wild experiments, that Jimmy was helping him with, but things got out of hand, and something terrible went wrong that caused something extreme to happen to the world they once knew. I also believe Oryx had something to do with it because Snowman tells the people that the animals are the children of Oryx, and that is why they must not kill or harm them.
I hope a lot of my questions are answered in the book, as to not leave me guessing for myself once I turn the final page.
