In the story The Eleventh plague there is many obstacles and fear of lost of your loved ones including stephen is frightened that he might. Lose his father to the plague and scared that one day he might be taken by slavers that use stolen people for labor.Jeff Hirsch tells you about a world that was destroyed by a massive war and a disease that wiped Everyone out before the war did there is not much of civilization left around except for a few places. Many people were harmed and a third of the world's civilization was destroyed. There are many groups of survivors naming salvagers, scavengers,slavers and townsfolk.
The category that stephen is in is salvager he goes around everywhere and finds materials and food never seen in centries. As …show more content…
Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn is only vaguely aware of a country ruled by a government, with running water and hospitals from the wistful stories passed down by those old enough to remember one. Opening the novel, he and his Dad are burying his grandfather together, with an unpredictable future ahead of them as “scavengers.” They have always lived a nomadic lifestyle scouring the desolate landscape for discarded items to sell/trade for survival under the stern guidance of an ex-Marine grandfather to keep them alive. Up until now, their family goals included eating, finding shelter against the elements, and avoiding others to stay out of trouble. But with the grandfather gone, they begin to wonder if there is more to life than surviving like baser animals.Through all these experiences, Stephen begins the difficult process of trusting and caring about others, and dealing with physical as well as psychic struggles between opposing influences: his dead grandfather's harshness, which kept them alive and out of trouble, and his comatose father's generosity, which opened Stephen's heart to kindness and compassion, although at a high