Julia

In life everyone wants to succeed, and make a name for themselves. Julia, the wives desire to succeed surpasses anyone else's desire in the novel. She works hard, comes home late, and most importantly uses and deals directly with hazardous materials. Her husband on the other hand has a desire to succeed but it is not as strong as his wives desire. He is offered jobs in different states that pay good but he does not want to make the family move and he knows that Julia will not agree to moving. Things are getting worse between jack and Julia and Julia is not only turning distant but also abusive to her children, and Julia driving away one night with an unidentifiable passenger in her car. On that same night, Julia is injured in a car accident. There was also an unidentified passenger in the car. After Julia is involved in a suspicious accident, Jack decides to investigate and look into what she has been doing lately with work. He finds she is dealing with nano-particles and also that she has a government contract to make nano-particle-cameras. Jack is offered a job by Xymos, because the project manager and a good friend of Jack, Ricky, is having software issues with the nanobots. After being hired Jack is shown new facilities and also is told what is being researched with nano-particles. Unfortunately there is an outbreak of these particles. The particles are very dangerous to humans and they are also self sustaining and reproducing. After it is found that there has been an outbreak they try to find a way to get rid of the nano particles before they destroy more things and hurt more people.

Prey

As the story line progresses the husband believes that his wife is going to divorce him. She claims that he is turning his children against her, minimizing her, making her feel like she is worthless. All of these things are commonly heard in a divorce court and if the wife says in court, what she just told her husband, she is sure to win custody of the kids. The husband is very passive and allows things to happen without taking much action at all. He even stated that some courts in California would rather give children to a mother who is on drugs, or hits her children (as long as she doesn't hit them too hard) rather than giving the kids to a father because all children need a mother figure to be raised and loved by. Personally if I knew that my wife was having an affair with another man I wouldn't be staying around looking stupid. The husband is out of work and this is another reason as to why his wife is losing attraction towards him. He meets with his job hunt helper and she tells him that there are pleanty of jobs outside of the Sillicon valley that are fit for him and very high paying. She explains to him that his shelf life is not much longer, meaning that if he is out of work for more than half of a year comapanies are going to start to wonder why and not even want to interview him or even view his application. It is explained to him that he needs to act quickly or else he may never hold a job in his career field as high up as he was ever again. He understands and wants to take action but due to some circumstances going on with his family life I feel as if he is going to keep pushing the job hunt back and continue to be Mr. Mom.  The problem is he knows his wife won't want to move, he was offered jobs in Austin, Texas and other places on the east coast but he continued to refuse the move mainly because he  doesn't want to put his children through moving and having to go to a new school and make new friends. Everything is going downhill in his life right now and he knows it, he even states that he is depressed. If i were to guess what was to happen next in the novel I would say that his wife beings to become more and more shady, and he begins to take more and more "crap" from her until he cant take enough and he decides to divorce her.

Infected

In the novel, as the story progresses the husband begins to suspect that his wife is becoming unfaithful. He beings noticing small things such as her change in dress, constantly coming home late, small lies, and her taking a shower right when she gets home as compared to in the morning. He also sees an old co worker at the super market and when his wife comes up in conversation his friend becomes very awkward and tries to change the topic. Another reason that he thinks his wife is having an affair is because one night she comes home especially late and claims that it was because she was working on a demonstrative video, after the husband watches the video, the video ending shows that it was made the day before... meaning the wife had lied about what she had been doing. The family faces tragedy when one night when the wife comes home late and wakes the baby. Hours after the couple is awoken by a harsh scream, the father goes to check on his child, only to find that she is blue. She is rushed to the hospital immediately and no one can seem to know whats wrong. Numerous tests are run and specialists keep coming into the babies room but nobody can seem to find out what has happened or how to help the situation. After staying up all night with the screaming baby, miraculously the baby is healed. Everything becomes fine, her color returned, rash went away, and everything was fine again. The  next day the husband found out through his younger daughter that a cleaning service had come to the house in the middle of the night and cleaned every single thing in the house, including the babies room. After knowing what the wife does for a living, I would predict that she was handling something very experimental at work and when she came home it was still on her and it infected the baby. As the family situation goes down hill, so does the parents relationship. I would predict that the wives hazardous materials that she is dealing with at work will have an outbreak throughout the world and everyone will become infected.

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How do you obtain anything worth having?

As humans we naturally desire to have anything that holds value aka anything worth having. Many things hold worth to people, some much more than others. There are many different ways of obtaining things in life. Some require extremely hard work, some require perseverance, while others are quite easy to obtain. Something in life that is worth having that requires hard work to obtain is money. Unless you are born into a wealthy family, in order to make money and support your lifestyle you need to work hard to get the money. In order to make a living one must do well in high school in order to proceed to college and earn a degree. If one wants to obtain even more money in their lifetime they would go for a higher degree, which would allow them to hold a better job, but would require more schooling, hard work, dedication and studying. Other things worth having take perseverance, for example: getting a wife/ husband. Couples usually date for about a year before getting engaged and in order to keep your significant other happy you need to constantly do certain things to make the relationship workout. Repeating these tasks over and over, month after month, shows that perseverance can work to help someone obtain something worth having, such as a husband/wife. An example of something that is worth having but easy to obtain is a family. Most of us are born into a loving, caring family who would do anything for each other. In order to keep the relationship, a certain amount of respect and love must constantly be shown towards everyone in the family. There are many things that are worth having in life and some ways to obtain these things come from hard work, perseverance, and some just come easy.