On the surface, it is simply the biography of a lonely young migrant who dreams of a decent life, hardening his shell and hustling to survive in hostile human environments.
The plot focuses primarily on the dilemmas the group faces as they struggle to maintain their humanity in the midst of a chaotic world full of zombie hordes and hostile human survivors.
The military, backed by a resurgent American wartime economy, began the three-year-long process of retaking the contiguous United States from both the undead as well as groups of hostile human survivors.
A child without education is not only a helpless human being but eventually could develop into a hostile human being.
However, within 60 80 hours after infection, the bacteria are subjected to a hostile human environment, and consequently, there is a selection for more fit mutants within the bacterial community that are better adapted to confront host defenses and gain access to blood and possibly other sterile sites.
This may sound elementary, but too many work environments are hostile to humans, and hostility does not breed cooperation or achievement.
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition (2002), perhaps in resistential defiance of its title, expands that definition to "a mock philosophy maintaining that inanimate objects are hostile to humans or seek to thwart human endeavours".
The Oxford English Dictionary defines resistentialism as a "mock philosophy which maintains that inanimate objects are hostile to humans" and calls it a "humorous blend" of the Latin res, thing(s), and French résister, to resist, with existentialism.
"I lay in a backyard in Bow, foodless and drinkless, urinating and defecating where I was," he writes, "treating as hostile the humans in the row houses all around — which wasn't hard".
According to the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the Emperor Julian, who was raised a Christian but became a zealous pagan, knew from experience that no wild beasts were so hostile to humans as most Christians were in their savagery toward one another.
