![]() ![]() Now the group from the first ward must stick together to survive, and they learn how to cope as a group with the doctor's wife as the leader. Eventually the quarantine burns down and the blind internees escape into the city, finding that the whole world has turned blind. Inside this quarantine, the situation quickly turns dire as their supplies begin to run low and the criminal element takes over, demanding sex for food. Informed by the ministry of health that they must vacate their house and move to a quarantine, the doctor's wife decides to join her husband even though she is not blind herself. ![]() It is at this point that the narrative begins to follow the doctor at the clinic and his wife. The first blind man goes to an ophthamology clinic–everyone there is eventually struck blind. Then a wave of spontaneous blindness follows. Not long after, the car thief goes blind while trying to hide the car. Once he has the blind man home, he proceeds to steal the first blind man's car. Confused and scared, a crowd gathers, their frustration forgotten, and one man offers to drive him home. ![]() José Saramago's Blindness starts out with one man spontaneously going blind in the middle of rush hour. ![]()
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