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“The Whacko”
Sinclair was director of the newly formed American governmental agency called the Department of Strategic Resources, or DeStRes. His job was to fix the problems of “starvation, disease, [and] homelessness” in the safe zone in the Rockies. Sinclair is very smart and adapts his ideas excellently to the new and strange problems that the country faces. He comes up with programs to train people in useful skills and to recycle unusable amenities—like cars—into tools and weapons.
Arthur Sinclair Quotes in World War Z
The World War Z quotes below are all either spoken by Arthur Sinclair or refer to Arthur Sinclair. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5: Home Front USA Quotes
Yes, there was racism, but there was also classism. You’re a high-powered corporate attorney. You’ve spent most of your life reviewing contracts, brokering deals, talking on the phone. That’s what you’re good at, that’s what made you rich and what allowed you to hire a plumber to fix your toilet, which allowed you to keep talking on the phone. The more work you do, the more money you make, the more peons you hire to free you up to make more money. That’s the way the world works. But one day it doesn’t. No one needs a contract reviewed or a deal brokered. What it does need is toilets fixed. And suddenly that peon is your teacher, maybe even your boss. For some, this was scarier than the living dead.
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Arthur Sinclair was head of the Department of Strategic Resources during the war, which was set up to establish a workable system for living within the safe zones. He describes one of the main problems he faced in this job—having people adapt to the new reality they now lived in. Their lives of privilege had passed, but many held on to their old attitudes. Previously, those with white collar jobs felt superior to people who worked with their hands and built and fixed things—this was because white collar employees generally made more money. In the process, they had come to Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus
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Arthur Sinclair Character Timeline in World War Z
The timeline below shows where the character Arthur Sinclair appears in World War Z. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5: Home Front USA
Taos, New Mexico. The narrator is speaking to Arthur Sinclair, Junior, who was director of the U.S. government’s Department of Strategic Resources or DeStRes. Sinclair...
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Sinclair admits that their pool of talent was very low as most of the refugees had...
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One of the biggest challenges Sinclair faced was trying “to change the way people thought”—racism and classism were ingrained into America’s...
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Sinclair says they began recycling and reusing their old goods, and took apart cars for parts...
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Sinclair says he was willing to fight the military for the DeStRes, but was glad he...
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Eliopolis’ team sometimes dropped food and medicine, but Sinclair asked them to prioritize delivery of tools and spare parts that would help these little...
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Chapter 8: Good-Byes
Taos, New Mexico, USA. Arthur Sinclair says he loves his job of being a “money cop” or SEC chairman. He suspects...
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