Rex Yanakakis, billionaire, father of Eli Yanakakis, Eddy Yanakakis, Lexie Yanakakis, and Therese Yanakis, and husband to Clea Yanakakis. Rex Yanakakis opposes against his family throughout the novel. The Compound by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, demonstrates the hardships of conflict between family. In this-award winning novel, Rex’s actions leads to conflict after conflict during the duration of the novel. One event such as this was the time when he cloned new sons and daughters and planned to feed them to the older members of the family when they eventually run out of food. A second event such as this was the time when Eli confronted his father about his deception. Another, such as this was the time when Rex tried to keep the family from escaping …show more content…
He called them Supplements, and were made by him as a last resort for food for his existing family, when they inevitably run out of food. Eli never met them and he did not want to get attached to the “Supplements”. But when he finally met Luke, Quinn, and Cara, something inside Eli changed. Eli became more distant in his relationship with his father and began to resent him and his ideology. Eli began seeing how psychologically unbalanced his father really was to consider cloning a human to use as a backup food source. Eli even said, “It goes against nature! You know that. Besides, none of those animal clones lived more than a short time” (Bodeen 124). To furthermore add to the supporting evidence to the inevitable truth, Eli was talking to Lexie and said, “Lex, everything about it is wrong. Cloning a human is...frickin’ twisted. In so many ways. It’s like playing God, creating another life like that” (Bodeen 140). Rex seems to want everything to go his way, even if it goes against his family who rightfully question his …show more content…
Eli finds out that the internet works in the compound and he comes in contact with his identical twin Eddy, and his grandma. Eli seems to be flooded with hope, and excitement at the site they are both alive and well. He quickly finds out that there was no nuclear attack and that everything his father did and said leading up to this moment in time was all a lie. At this point Eli is infuriated, disappointed, and feels betrayed. With the anger, and resentment filling his mind, Eli angrily confronted his father in front of his mother, Lexie, and Therese. Eli stated in the heated argument, “When I think of everything you made us believe. The things you would have made us do? And none of them were necessary. Not even one. This place wasn’t our sanctuary. This was your world. Your twisted world” (Bodeen 164). Rex at this point was in a state of denial, he actually seemed to believe he was saving his family, even though there was nothing to save them from. He believed what he was doing was for the best of his family, which the rest of the family disagreed with. Eli’s mother, Clea said in response, “You told me my son and my mother were dead and I believed you. My God, all these years I trusted you” (Bodeen 165). This evidently shows how Rex manipulated the rest of the family and wanted to control them in his own twisted game of