Amy Martin is a seventeen year old girl. She leaves her whole life behind at Earth, just to be with her parents. She risks a chance at a full and normal life when she steps into that cryo box. Now, she is stuck on a chaotic space ship, unfrozen due to a malfunction without her parents, and with a lost chance of any kind of normal, happy life. Amy “liked running” (Revis 131). Her ultimate goal was to run marathons. Ironically, she is trapped in a limited amount of room. This triggers claustrophobia when she realizes that “there is nowhere to run.” (Revis 138) Having nowhere to run when a killer is among them, or when someone tries to drug her, etc. is a dangerous aspect. She is a bird in the cage, especially when the author gave her the last name, Martin, which also is a name of a bird.
How can anyone keep themselves together knowing that their actual life, including their friends and family, existed more than three hundred years ago? The memories wouldn’t even be relevant, and no one will be able to share those with you. So, she just has to reconcile with the fact that she is wedged between a mess, and she has to settle with the next available, sane person to keep her going in this so called life.
