“a shopper from the commissaries of hell”
Commissary:
Dictionary.com: (1) n. a store that sells food and supplies to the personnel or workers in a military post, mining camp, lumber camp, or the like.
(2) a person to whom some responsibility or role is delegated by a superior power; a deputy.
Oxford English Dictionary: (1) n. ...One to whom a special duty or charge is committed by a superior power; one commissioned to act as representative; a deputy, delegate....
(2) An officer or official who has charge of the supply of food, stores, and transport, for a body of soldiers. (Formerly they also inspected the musters of men.)
Urban Dictionary: In the context of incarceration, a store for provisions available to inmates on occasion.
These shoppers would eat your children in front of your eyes, tunnel among the ruins and crawl out from the rubble carrying charred and unidentified tins of food in nylon nets...
It’s as if the author gives the reader a type of imagery of hell, where blackened demon-like men rule earth and scavenge for anything they can find worth some type of value, -even your own children as food. The father in the story presumes that the world is soon to be populated by these types of men. I think the vivid description and imagery the author uses in this one sentence adds depth to the story by really accentuating the reader’s perception of the type of world they’re living in. It sort of gives the reader a glimpse of how truly bad and desolate it is. These “shoppers” don’t make sense to me because honestly, if I were alive during a time such as described in the story, I wouldn’t want to live. There would not really be any part of me that would have the desire to stay alive and/or do whatever I had to do in order to preserve my life. To me it would be like life isn’t worth living. But for these men, they go so far as to eat children to stay alive. That thought is somewhat unperceivable to me. I really don’t think we as a society would ever become that desolate… no matter what happens. But I guess I’ll really never know!
Commissary. Oxford English dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.seuniversity.edu:2048/view/Entry/37133?rskey=nvjk7v&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid
Commissary. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/commissary
Commissary. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=commissary
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