The protagonist finds that his own meanness, brutishness, lack of humanity, inarticulate rage, and inner demons can best be expressed or exorcised inside the boxing ring." The insistent, chilling music sets a mood of polarized dislocations in the world (e.g., war and play, men and children) and in the corrupted city""s ""no-man""s-land"" environment (with its bombed out, war-torn ruins, dark and slick streets, cemeteries and sewers criss-crossing beneath he sectored zones).Both ragic outlaw figures exemplify ""innocents on the run"" who cling o each other and try to function as a family." And then he mentioned that he could have saved Tina if he moved faster, but he thought he was in hisownnightmare:"I hought it was just another nightmare, like the one I had the night before.