Theme At The Heart Of Wool Summary

There is an important theme at the heart of Wool, but the average reader might find it hard to find. The reader can find the first theme is easily found, that humans usually fight things out of fear. This is shown when Bernard, head of IT sentences Lukas to the cleaning when Lukas figures out that Bernard killed a man. Bernard used the pretext that Lukas had said he wanted to go outside. This theme is also shown when Juliette is sent to the cleaning for looking at the previous sheriff, Holston’s files. Considered a renegade Juliette makes her way back to silo eighteen to save Lukas from the cleaning. Walking her way through the decimated earth she reaches the aperture in silo eighteen with a heat blanket to shield from fire blasted at you
after the airlock closes. She tries to protect him but he dies and she walks over to the bod only to find it was not Lukas. On his way up to the airlock Lukas told the sheriff about how Bernard murdered a man and Bernard is sent to the cleaning instead. When they bring Juliette inside the people want to elect Juliette mayor. She says if she wants to become mayor she will tell the truth about the silos to the whole silo. The theme is shown at that moment when the sheriff and Juliette are arguing about telling the silo the truth and Juliette says “But what could we invent that’s scarier than what’s really out there.”