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Blindness

By José Saramago

Chapter 1-
A man suddenly goes blind for no apparent reason. This happens while he was waiting in his car at the traffic lights. He can see only see whiteness. When the blind man's wife takes him to the ophthalmologist to have his eyes checked, the eye doctor cannot find anything physically wrong with them. A few hours later the ophthalmologist also loses his sight, as does he first blind man's wife. The white blindness is turning into an huge out break. Within days, there are hundreds of newly blind people and within a few months, the entire nation has gone blind. The government responds initially by creating large quarantine areas where infected persons are forcibly held without recourse to medical care or outside assistance. As the disease sweeps the nation, first social services then law enforcement completely fail, leaving the country in a state of chaos as the strong begin to prey upon the weak. Numerous crimes and outrages are perpetrated even as hundreds of thousands begin to starve and die.


Chapter 2
A person who offered to help the blind man stole the blind man car. The thief begins a long drive to the garage where the stolen automobile will be processed. The thief becomes nervous and stressed and he concentrates on his driving in an attempt to avoid suspicious behaviour. After some time the thief is so nervous he pulls the car to the side of the road and gets out for a brief respite. As he stands on the site of the road near the stolen automobile, the thief suddenly goes blind. Before this incident the thief met a girl in the ally way he saw her walking by her self and the thief approached her and offered her sex for money she said “NO” the thief quickly grab her and started to rape her the girl was screaming help help!! A man saw and the thief started to run and that’s how it started from the man and jacked from his car.
Elsewhere the doctor...