“The U.S. has been ravaged by war with China, a plague, and the systemic fall of society as we know it. The military has turned to human trafficking and slavery, human decency is at an all time low and there is no one to trust but yourself” (Goodreads.com). Jeff Hirsch’s The Eleventh Plague tells about fifteen year old Stephen Quinn. He is a salvager roaming the demolished landscape of North America with his father. After his father falls into a coma, Stephen runs into a strange place, a society that pretended the plague never happened, and they are unaware of the danger they are in. This book is a fantastic book for readers because it has relations with Whittier, Alaska, and it also has the message of how people should remember the past and use that experience to be better prepared for the future.…show more content… In the article, “Business Insider,” the author Christian Storm states, “...town of Whittier might be one of the most remote and hard-to-access towns in the United States. The only way to get in is through a 2.6 mile long tunnel that closes at night” (Storm). In the novel it states, “Will moved aside a small group of trees and brush to expose a rough path cutting through the woods….It was another hour before we moved out onto open ground” (Hirsh 62). In the end, both towns are isolated, the novel hiding it in the forest with a single path, while Whittier is surrounded by mountains having only a two mile
