One of thing I noticed while reading The Loners, by Lex Thomas, was that not really any of the characters in the book are good people. An example would be David's girlfriend Hilary, who cheated on him with a guy named Sam. I wonder why everyone was driven to insanity so quickly, obviously the matter of the whole situation was bad and traumatizing, but in a book that tries to get you immersed into actually being there. There were so many impractical decisions that ruined the experience. What I disliked most was the fact that everyone in the school ran off into their own groups the second everything went down. Example, The jocks would run off together, the nerds would, and the "whores" would as well. something that surprised me was the fact that the military cut off all food supplies to high school kids when they got desperate. I was disappointed to read about the military to be so irrational, of course kids would be desperate for food and would do anything to survive, so the military should've expected retaliation.
     What I find confusing is how quick to turn against each other they become. They start killing each other for food, which is very hard to make sense of considering how close to reality the author makes of the situation.