In the book Lies, by Michael Grant, in a small California town, all of the adults have disappeared, and the city is in anarchy. The main character, Sam is a boy who managed to survive for a while and is the leader of Perdido beach, a part of the small town, and he has to worry about starvation and a series of mutations going through many people, and that all of the normal people are getting scared of what the mutations are doing.

Sam is a surfer, and the author seems to be poking fun at the stereotype of the carefree surfer. Sam is the opposite of the stereotype, after all of the horrors that everybody else is doing. All the food is running out, and it is very hard for them to keep their food in place, because there is constant thievery, and a group of people who are discriminating against the people who got powers from being mutant. All of the stereotypes are shown, but they are poked fun at. Sam is the most brave and antsy person, and Astrid the geek is one of the most powerful and respected people

This makes me think that the author wants you to think about what a stereotype really means to all of the people affected. It seems that every stereotype is shone as a little bit of an interpretation of the way that a horrible event affects and changes a person. John D. Rockefeller said," I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity". No matter who you are, the disaster will change you if it happens.