It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

