Maximum Ride

For my independent study I read the novel Maximum Ride. This novel centered around a small group of children, all geetically engineered at birth and grafted with avian DNA, giving them wings, the ability to fly, and several other bir-like traits. These children have escaped from the "school" where they were kept and are now on the lamb, trying desperately to find a place to live, without threat of being found. The children were made this way by a group of scientists attempting to make improved humans capable of warfare on a different level, once the expirements escape the scientist release another creation know as the "erasers" to try and catch them. The erasers are humans bred with canine DNA and resemble a werewolf. They endlessly hunt the children, bloodthirsty and savage they stop at nothing to destroy every piece of these escapees. Although this novel portrays the erasers as the evil villains which seek to destroy the main characters, is it not in actuality the scientists who created both expirements who should be blamed. Is playing God an alright thing to do? The scientists treat the children with cold disregard as objects they created, and although each child has a distinct personality and consciousness, the scientists would sooner dispose of any one rather than take the trouble to care for it. Once again the human beings are responsible for the evil found in this novel, somehow pulled towards it through the course of their lifetime. By allowing themselves to be captured by the evil, they have gained many advantages, freedom of decision, large profit gains, and an escape from morals which would have previously destroyed their conscious. This pattern of evil can be found in nearly every novel with a protagonist, and in each scenario the new recruit gains in some way.