Jim at the beginning of the book feels like he is not doing much with life and that he has no purpose in life. So Jim decides to move out of his place and joins the radicals. At first he would just type letters all day for Mac and have them but even then he was satisfied just because it was he was a part of something bigger. Later Jim wants to be more involved so they go out to the country and they meet with some apple pickers. Jim soon learns from Mac that you have to do whatever it takes to help the bigger cause. As soon as they get there, there’s a lady, Lisa, giving birth and Mac lies about have past experience with delivering baby. But all goes well and gains the trust of all the men there. As the novel progresses Jim as well becomes accustomed to doing whatever it takes to do it for the greater cause. It is unclear if Jim was doing it just to help out the picker or is it just to make himself feel like he is going something meaningful.
hmmm....not sure if you were able to finish the book. It seems to me that by the end Jim was so devoted to the cause that he valued winning over anything else, which was much like the Grower's position. Neither the Growers nor Jim seemed to really place much value on humanity by the end of the novel.
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