There's definitely some Biblical allusions going on. As the characters vie with each other over power and relationships, we see that even desperation is not enough to overcome human pettiness and just plain stupidity. But he is old, and in ill-health, and times are hard and getting harder. In one such Minnesota village, a farmer rules his family and the survivors from his village as a dictatorial patriarch. The last pockets of civilization may be farm villages. The cities, dependent on farms for food, are first to collapse. Without farmland, massive famine results. Show More crowding out every native species, the plants seem to have no nutritional value to humans or animals.
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