The woman in the bed reminds Snowman of Oryx. He sees a complete stranger looking back at him. He stops to look at himself in the mirror. Snowman finds the remains of a man in the bathroom, and the woman of the house lying in the king-sized bed. He calls out but, of course, there is nobody there. He chooses a random house and enters it through a broken window. He continues onward, primarily in search of food. As he looks at the land stretched in front of him, he sees the large houses, shopping malls, and clinics that once constituted his world. He stops to eat his chocolate energy bar and drink the rest of his water. As he continues on he sees a trail of abandoned objects, evidence of hope lost.īy the time Snowman reaches the outer wall of the RejoovenEsense Compound, he is covered in sweat. He maneuvers through the barricades, stepping around the body of a dead guard. There is nothing to shield him if he finds that he needs cover. This is the dangerous part of his trip, as he will have to cross open space. The houses are slowly replaced with warehouses. He stops to drink water and hopes that he will soon find more. Perhaps he is not actually the Abominable Snowman he could be the kind of snowman that children build on chilly winter days. The sun rises higher in the sky and Snowman begins to feel light-headed.
He wonders if it even matters if he dies. He sees vultures circling him in the sky. Snowman finds it hard to walk through the overgrown vines that cake the floor. Instructions for how to put together complicated technology would be lost, as would the vast majority of the once available surface metal. Crake surmised that it could be accomplished with the destruction of a single generation. Crake had asked Jimmy to imagine the world if civilization had been destroyed. Snowman remembers an argument he once had with Crake. He imagines the questions that the human descendants will ask-how did this happen? He thinks that they just might decide that what they see, remnants of society past are not real.
Snowman ponders the possibility that he is not the only human alive. Soon the plants will overtake the buildings. Plants grow through the cracks of most buildings. The shops on the ground floors are completely empty now. He enters the pleeblands-full of wrecked cars and debris.
Snowman eventually walks his way across the once park that he had been treading through.
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