Everyone is Depressed and Disappearing

            I felt that in this week’s reading of Atlas Shrugged, the plot started to get very exciting. We are introduced to dozens of different characters and are able to know about them because Dagny or Hank talk to each and every character that gets named by the previous new character. Hank and Dagny, specifically Dagny, are on the search to find the creator of the new motor, and Hank believes that if there is someone who is able to create a motor like that, the not all hope has been lost for humanity. Many times throughout the chapters I read, I noticed that the author continuously mentions the depression of the people in the world. No matter where the location is, people are depressed. There is even a book that is mentioned in the novel that is extremely negative and says that everything is useless, and that is Dr. Ferris’s book. I think we see a really sensitive side of Dagny when she thinks about Hank, because she realizes she is really only happy with him. I also find it very strange that so many people are “disappearing”. My prediction is that none of them really died, for example Ellis Wyatt, and that all the people that have supposedly disappeared have all actually gone to one place that we do not know about yet. I think Dagny and Hank are going to find that place and get everything back on track, but I might be wrong. That is just what I think is going to happen. I think Francisco’s speech about money was unexpected, but I agreed with some of the things he said. I believe too that money is a good thing and that it is a product of the hardworking people. I also agree with his statement that if money is lacking, people would turn to violence and killing. He also said that to be someone in America, you have to have money. This statement depicted to me another touching of politics in this novel by the author. I feel like Rand did that a lot with this section of the reading.