Tenth of December is a collection of brilliant short stories by George Saunders, where characters are put in complicated situations in which their raw humanities are exposed. Perhaps the most proclaimed or controversial story from the whole collection is "Escape from Spiderhead", in which the protagonist Jeff, a prisoner, is used as a lab rat to test out chemicals that can generate some of the most powerful emotions like love. The story explore the question of whether there's a force more powerful than love within us, and the answer is positive: the protagonist's will to do no harm is stronger than his love for his own life, it transcends any individual personal bond. Saunders choose to tell the story from a former convict's point of view perhaps to show that the love and sense of responsibility for humanity, especially after one's witnessed his own potential for violence and evil, is more powerful than any emotions.
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