Wool Omnibus Essay
Idealistic minds bring revolutionary ideas, ideas capable of taking down entire regimes. But what happens when those minds are silenced before having their idealistic thoughts planted? Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey is a set of five novellas combined into a single novel taking place in an underground self-sufficient silo stretching one hundred and forty floors into the earth. The world beyond, only seen through cameras, is desolate and marred with toxic gases. Books four and five, The Unraveling and The Stranded, respectively, continue on with the story following Juliette, a 32 year old mechanic turned sheriff who was sent to cleaning after following a trail of deception, and the events taking place after her departure. Book three, Casting Off,
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Lucas is a twenty six year old man who is quite tech literate and one of the few who care about the servers running the silo. An ideal candidate for Bernard’s head of IT replacement, he soon finds himself in a secret room with a listing of all the rules for the silo as a whole titled “The Order.” The Order is a book known only by one or two people per silo and those whom built the silos wrote the book when they thought of every scenario which could lead to its annihilation with the correct course of action to resolve and avoid it. Should one man hold the power of knowing the truth? Should it be shared and allow the community decide? Along the way of Lucas’ studies, Bernard reveals the cleanings are more symbolic than serving the purpose of dealing with those having the capability of planting poison into the minds of every citizen inside the silo. He gave an average of over one hundred people are killed yearly for their idealistic thinking as potential threats. After the initial conversation Lucas begins to question his mentor, world around them, and if the people should know. Finding himself asking too many questions, Lucas drew suspicion onto himself and was sentenced to cleaning. By the luck of fate, Juliette radios to her silo after settling in an abandoned silo, inadvertently saving Lucas’ life and sentencing Bernard’s to end. With Bernard gone a new age is ushered in where everyone in the silo has the truth available to them, but which option would they actually have
Lucas is a twenty six year old man who is quite tech literate and one of the few who care about the servers running the silo. An ideal candidate for Bernard’s head of IT replacement, he soon finds himself in a secret room with a listing of all the rules for the silo as a whole titled “The Order.” The Order is a book known only by one or two people per silo and those whom built the silos wrote the book when they thought of every scenario which could lead to its annihilation with the correct course of action to resolve and avoid it. Should one man hold the power of knowing the truth? Should it be shared and allow the community decide? Along the way of Lucas’ studies, Bernard reveals the cleanings are more symbolic than serving the purpose of dealing with those having the capability of planting poison into the minds of every citizen inside the silo. He gave an average of over one hundred people are killed yearly for their idealistic thinking as potential threats. After the initial conversation Lucas begins to question his mentor, world around them, and if the people should know. Finding himself asking too many questions, Lucas drew suspicion onto himself and was sentenced to cleaning. By the luck of fate, Juliette radios to her silo after settling in an abandoned silo, inadvertently saving Lucas’ life and sentencing Bernard’s to end. With Bernard gone a new age is ushered in where everyone in the silo has the truth available to them, but which option would they actually have