The Compound #2. S.A. Bodeen. Pages 55-101.

In the last blog post, I talked about most of the character that made it into the Compound. I also talked about Eddy and Gram who didn’t make it in. The one character that developed even more was the CEO and billionaire of a successful computer company; the father or Rex Yanakakis. Rex was an orphan, adopted as a baby and then orphaned again at the age of nineteen. Rex didn’t stop there though since he was a brilliant young man and had some inheritance money to get him through college at MIT with a computer science degree and from there on, he began his computer company. From his success in his company, he supported the orphanage he grew up at and because so, the orphanage named it after him. He met Eli’s mom at the age of twenty-seven when he saw her playing in the Seattle Symphony. Since then, he kept sending her white roses until she finally agreed to meet with him. They got married and built a thirty-room estate, adopted Lexi from his very own orphanage he came from, and had Eli, Eddy and Terese. Sounds like a pretty good life after growing up with nothing right? Eli wasn’t satisfied. He wanted a normal father who “raked piles of leaves to jump in with their kids.” (60) Instead, he was left with a father who would usually use a credit card to buy a gumball instead of always having loose change. Throughout this section of reading, we learned a lot about how Rex had been lying. While randomly using Eddy’s computer, Eli found out that he could go on the Internet. Rex confessed about how he had been going on the Internet for some time now. Rex thinks that it has something to do with the government and how it sends off shockwaves of Internet access so survivors could communicate. As you can see, this section mostly dealt with the character development of Rex Yanakakis.