Amy Pond wrote:
Now, it seems to me like since the barrier has became clear life will be so much more easy for children of the FAYZ. Obviously the parents will want answer and that would take time, but people can make signs with the story or if someone can do sign language that could happen (or just plain old lip reading).
People from the outside could help them farm better, tell them what foods are edible, and other stuff.
What do you think is bad and good about the barrier being clear?
The people inside the FAYZ probably don't have much paper left anymore, so writing communication down would be hard. Lip reading and sign language are great ideas - there's definitely someone OUTSIDE the FAYZ who can do them although finding someone inside the FAYZ who can lip read and/or sign might be harder. You're right that if the adults are being smart they will begin to write down hints and ideas for the kids, about what to do to stay alive, since the adults have more life experience and would know these things. They can communicate a little bit, once they actually get organized, but getting organized so that it's not just chaos and the same questions being asked over and over would be the hard part.
The bad parts are that a) the grown ups might want to try and parent the kids from outside (suggesting things that just won't work because they don't understand the conditions inside the FAYZ), b) some adults may go crazy seeing their kids in that state, c) it's painful to be that close to someone you love but not be able to go to them, d) the adults now will know whether or not their children lived and if they became corrupted by the FAYZ (which will make for a lot of unhappy parents), and lastly, a lot of parents/kids won't ever be able to bridge that gap between them after what they saw through the FAYZ wall and the time spent apart, even with communication or if the barrier comes down. These are just the negative sides as I see them (all written up in one run-on sentence yay! /shot)