Throughout the book, especially in part one, Bell does and excellent job of keeping us updated on what the character is thinking. In part one, We meet Moss, a middle aged veteran, who is very brave. He comes across a truck with dead bodies and two million dollars worth of cash in the truck. Throughout the experience of him stumbling across it and taking it we learn all the thoughts going through the head of Moss. He often questions if he should really go through with this or not which leads him to the decision that he will do it but he know people will die along the way and one of the people dying could definitely be himself. Although death fears him a little he stays strong and is extremely brave. He knows it will all be worth it in the end if he survives because again this is 2 million dollars we are talking about. At this time two million dollars sets you for life and beyond.
pg. 27 “His own shadow was more company than he would have liked. Ugly feeling out here. A trespasser. Among the dead. Dont get weird on me, he said. You aint one of em. Not yet.”
This is just one of the many thoughts Moss had when he was headed back to the truck with the dead people. I believe the author is leading us to assume he’s eventually going to become like these guys because they murder people and he knows people are going to be after him and someone is going to die in the end.
Great American Novels 