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I think I've missed something in Shift. After the fall of silo 17, Solo is contacted on the radio by silo 40. He doesn't want to answer, so he shuts down the receiver.

Why didn't he use it again in the following years? Even if he'd broken it, he had time to repair it.

Am I missing something?

I think it has to do with the world as he knows it ending as well as only being a teenager.

I think it's just plain fear and his association of it with the "bad thing" that happened to his father.

That's what I thought at first, but for that many years? After knowing about the world from his library?

He was feeling very lonely yet didn't try to reach out that other silo?

Is it possible he never realized the transmition came from another silo? He does explain that he would hear people shouting and hurting each other over the air.

Even if he realized it came from another silo, why reach out to what sounds dangerous? It's probably some sort of post traumatic shock that prevented him from taking that risk. For all he knew, the strangers could come harm him if he activated the radio.

Solo wasn’t the brightest character. I read this book over a year ago, and I liked it, but I’m still annoyed to this day by the way he (view spoiler)[just sat in the locked section every day and let the violent people outside try a new batch of codes on the keypad. We know there was a keypad on both sides, because he tried to input the code from his side during the first day he was locked in there. And he obviously knew from seeing it happen every single day that a certain # of bad entries would disable the keypad for the rest of the day. Even a much younger child should have been smart enough to realize that all he had to do was punch in a series of wrong codes from his side of the door first thing after the door reset each day to lock the keypad out for the rest of the day. Then the people outside would never have figured out the code through the process of elimination. (hide spoiler)]

He didn't realize that there were other silos. When he's first locked in there he wonders to himself why the radio can only call 40 floors.

Were there 2 radios? One to reach the other silos, and an internal one?

YouKneeK wrote: "Solo wasn’t the brightest character.
Very good point! But I hadn't thought of that either, so I'm as dumb as Solo in that regard :)

Emmanuel wrote: "
Very good point! But I hadn't thought of that either, so I'm as dumb as Solo in that regard :)"

LOL, nah, missing or not connecting a few sentences in a book isn’t quite the same as being oblivious to an obvious solution that you see in action every single day for months (years?). :)

I never thought about Solo pushing the buttons from the inside! Mind blown.