There are no current situations related to the novel, but there are cases that are similar. Young children are exhibiting their superior intelligence, and parents are trying to make their children smarter and smarter by sending them to hagwons or having a tutor (mostly in Korea). Many people describe such students’ countenance as “dark,” “exhausted,” or “experienced in pain.” It seems that they have forgotten about youth. This is the battle for the “best,” just like a student in Battle School trying to be the best so that he would not be “iced.” The novel does not suggest any solutions, and no one can. The whole world is battling for the “best,” and who can change the mind of the world? This is 2007, a part of the period where technology is improving. The world will look for the best of the best people to think of a brilliant solution for the problems we have in this world, which will make the battle harder. Just like other organisms, we humans look only for the best. Those who do not meet the world’s criteria have to suffer in some way. It is humans’ nature to look for what we call the best, which is why no solutions are brought up. Who can beat humans’ nature or habit and change it?
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