Blindness

I have started reading Jose Saramago's Blindness. The book has been an international best seller, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and has said to be, "A shattering work by a literary master" (The Boston Globe).

Blindness starts out with a man sitting at a red light in his car, the light turns green and he isn't moving. The irrated people that are stuck behind him start honking and getting out of their cars to see what has gone wrong with this man's car. The impatient drivers are knocking on his window and see the man say, "I am blind." Everyone standing around doesn't know what to do until a man says that he will drive the 'blind' man home.

The good samaritain drives the newly 'blind' man home and leads him to his room, and then he leaves and steals the blind man's car. The 'blind' man's blindness is unique in the way that he suddenly became blind, all he sees is white, and his eyes are in perfect condition. His wife arrives home and they go to the doctor who tells them he doesn't know what has happened.

To sum this up the doctor becomes blind, the man who stole the car becomes blind, a prostitue becomes blind and a little kid. The board decides to reason it as an emidemic.