The Children

In The Life of Fynex, a society is presented where there are simply two classes, the Adults and '''the Children. '''Compared to a communistic society, while the Adults represent the bourgeoisie, the Children represent the proletariat, though conditions are different. The leading government in the story split the society into Adults and Children following the catastrophic events that preceded the story.

While the Children face numerous hardships that the Adults don't, they live relatively stable lives compared to today's poor/homeless populations. The Adults provide the Children with food, water, clothing, and shelter, all the basic needs to survive. However, while all these needs are provided, their condition is not comparable to what the Adults make of them. For example, in the province where Fynex lives, the Adults normally give the Children food that are rotten, leftover, thrown out, or stale; they give the Children used water that may not be suitable for drinking; the clothing the Children have access to were normally worn by the Adults until they became rags basically; the Adults may construct new shelters for the Children to live in, but they mostly leave the Children to inhabit buildings that have already been built.

Despite the harsh treatment of the Children in the province where Fynex lives, other provinces have managed to equalize the living conditions of the Children and the Adults, since they are permitted to interpret the class' benefits.