On Such a Full Sea – B-Mor Needs More Motivation

I’ve talked about it a bit on other people’s English class blog posts, but B-Mor’s citizens really have to strive if they ever hope to escape their predestined lives of work. In these new chapters, we’re finally given more insight into other charter lives: from a very early age, children are essentially trained and prepared to be exceptional. As adults know that their performance on future exams will quite literally decide their careers and lives, they only want the best for their children. So after a rigorous schooling regimen for… pretty much all of their lives, they take these exams when they’re 18. Some (those who don’t do very well I think) get the opportunity to take it again, but that’s it. All that prep is either made or broken by these tests.

… And that’s just the charters! B-Mor doesn’t really have the luxury of preparedness. They are a working people, and most don’t prepare to leave these lives. On the off chance that someone might want to leave, though, they don’t get the preparedness (well, any really) that the charter kids do. The kids must study on their own, and take these exams when they’re 12 rather than when they’re 18 (I don’t really know what I want to do with my life, so how can they expect a 12 year old to?!). And, once they’ve taken this, they need to be in the top 2% of all charter scores to be considered for employment elsewhere. TOP. 2. OF. THE. WORLD. 

The amount of effort that would need to go into that would be just incredible on its own, but having to be the best of the best in a place that doesn’t even give you a chance to actively prepare? That’s intense! Too intense… With an environment like this, there isn’t really a push for B-Mor’s citizens to try different lifestyles and escape into the larger world. Working, working, working, it’s as if there’s nothing else that these people can do. There’s no reason to move on ahead if all that one can do is work. And those that do want to leave can only hope and study on their own to escape their monotonous lifestyles.