When Juliette first meets him, his initial tone seems a bit hostile. I thought he was trying to lead Juliette astray by sitting her down and teaching her stargazing. Honestly I was practically 99% sure that he was working for Bernard when he bumped into Juliette on her way down to IT to find Scotty. It seemed too coincidental. Besides, why else would Howey incorporate that passage, if not to give the readers a hint? Clearly, I was mistaken, but I'm wondering if anyone else thought the same thing perhaps?
This is interesting. I never liked Lukas, but he didn't strike me as a bad guy when I first read about him. There was a point when I thought he wasn't going to be on Juliette's side after all, when he was working for Bernard in IT, but other than that he seemed okay. By talking to her about stargazing, he is breaking the rules of the silo and technically "leading her astray", so I guess in the context of the story what he was doing is wrong. But since we are not rooting for the people who are "in the right", we like characters who do bad or rebellious things.
ReplyDeleteI must say Lyle, I did belive Lucas to be a little suspicious at first, though I would go as far to label him an antagonist. But as the book progressed, I started to get the feeling that he was going to "good" and help Juliette in some way. I honestly did think Lucas was going to join Juliette in the cleaning, and jouney with her to silo 17 (I believe that's the name of the run down Silo). But once I found out he didn't travel with her, I knew that he was going to play a major role once Bernard took him under his wing. He could unravel the corrupt nature of IT, while working inside of IT.
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