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 * Chapter 2 Journal Topics** - feel free to add your thoughts...

Explain the growing paranoia of the crew. What are they afaird of? Is it justified? Explain your responses.

Also in your notebook. Make a compare and contrast chart for McReady and Norris (one is bronze and one is steel). Descriptions on pages 253 and 256 might help.


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 * Chapter 2(redo)**


 * Compare and Contrast**

__McReady(bronze)__ ~Tall ~Basically complete adaptation to the harshness of his environment ~Is mainly colored bronze (hair & skin)

__Both__ ~Strong men

__Norris(steel)__ ~short ~wiry strength ~best compared to steel

The crew is afraid of what every other human being is naturally afraid of, the unknown. They’re more afraid of it because of what they do know about the Thing, that it’s not from Earth. Through this fear and paranoia the crew experiences through the discovery of the Thing, Campbell is telling us about how we fear everything that we don’t know anything about, so humans like to feel as if they know everything, they’re more confident when they know about what they encounter. In “Who Goes There?” the surroundings are basically unknown to them as well, so it doesn’t help the situation with the Thing at all, and even more so the fact that they’re all crammed into a camp with no privacy, they actually influence it even more, because they don’t know much of Antarctica and the conditions are bad as they know it.