We think she is being treated like a normal person, when in reality, Marcos takes out furniture and locks her in her room to keep her from hurting the baby. This is because, she is fooled into feeling safe with Marcos. I kept wondering why this was talked about so much when Jasmine isn’t aggressive at all during the pregnancy. It is also mentioned multiple times that pregnant females are aggressive, so aggressive and vicious that they are used for hunting, or that they need to be amputated because they might try to kill their babies so they don’t get eaten. This shows that he had been using methods he learned at work to use on Jasmine, but we (and Jasmine) confused these behaviors with empathy or compassion. By the end, we know that Marcos has his own way, which is singing Jasmine a song. It is mentioned that Stunners each have a secret to calming head before they knock them out. So, there was no reason for us to think that he would be any type of hero or the good guy. He never feels remorse for raping her either. Marcos never did anything like that and he ultimately rapes Jasmine. We even saw another Processing Center worker try to free the farmed humans. We think that he’s talking about wanting to have sex with Jasmine, but what he really wanted was just to inseminate her himself to get the baby. He simply says that what he wants to do is prohibited but he does it anyway. However, there is no “scene” for when he assaults Jasmine because it’s not about the sex.
We knew that Marcos wasn’t interested in Jasmine for sex/lust because he hooks up with Spanel in a more graphic scene. He fooled her by treating her human ENOUGH to get what he wanted. He actually uses everything he learned from working at the Center in order to get what he wanted from Jasmine. However, we are fooled into believing that anything he did for Jasmine was out of empathy, because that is exactly how he tricked Jasmine. We even get a sense of empathy from Marcos about his world which makes us as readers feel like he thinks the way we do.
Throughout the book, we get a sense of all the atrocities human beings commit against each other. I had a feeling that he would betray Jasmine and I think I realized why we are so betrayed or felt his “change of heart” was so sudden. I was really struggling with this because throughout the book, I had this weird feeling about him and I was trying to figure out why. I’ve noticed that a lot of readers feel betrayed by Marcos at the end, and I was trying to figure out why that was. This is really REALLY long because I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Major Spoilers (I ruin the ending and everything) Just wanted to voice my feels about this book.
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