"I enjoyed King Rat as an opportunity to "see the other side". Where King might have been seen as totally a user, manipulator, and profiteer (and is seen as just that by the English character who is trying to hunt him down), he is also furnishing a market for the needy, as the narrator discovers when he's the one in need."

Good robomatic ...."see the other side" .. if it wasn't for the Rat, they wouldn't survive. The traditions of the (POW) officers and the class system provides nothing towards their survival. The Rat, through it all is one that they hate, they detest him ... yet he provides the existance they require.

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