Consequently, they suffer from a sense of isolation. The housemates lock themselves in, bar the doors, shutter the windows, and leave only out of necessity. Instead of an army barracks, the house is a bastion against the oppressive power of the creatures who haunt the world. The house on Shillingham Lane is a type of garrison. In walling the danger out, they also wall themselves in. In Josh Malermans debut 2014 novel 'Bird Box,' the world was besieged by mysterious creatures that turn people who so much as look at them lethally violent. Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is. In order to protect themselves, people build walls against this vastness and the danger that it represents. Josh Malerman: Bird Box (signed first edition). Characters who suffer from the garrison mentality fear the oppressive vastness of their habitat. While Malerman does not consciously participate in Frye's literary tradition, "Bird Box" is an archetypal example of the garrison mentality. The garrison mentality, originally coined by literary critic Northrop Frye, describes the sense of claustrophobia and isolation that exists in an army outpost in the wilderness.
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