Post Apocalyptic Stories

One of the main ways the author illustrates this is by subtly mentioning an ongoing war and a potential for nuclear strike, the author says, “war may be declared any hour. This country stands ready to defend its… The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky” (Bradbury, 30). Throughout the story the main characters in the book rarely mention the fact that there is a war going on and the potential for a nuclear strike. This is because the characters want to feel safe even though at any moment their whole life could be taken away from them in the blink of an eye. The characters are too caught up in mindless entertainment that it becomes all they care about. The media brainwashes them into thinking they are safe because the people want to feel safe. All of this leads to the characters creating a false sense of security which eventually leads to lack of knowledge about the ongoing situation within their country, which creates a dystopia world due to the problem of thinking they are safe. This further proves how the motif of fear best shows the negative effects of a dystopian society. Similarly, Bradbury continues to display the false sense of security when he talks about the need for firemen to burn houses that contain books, he states, “Established, 1790,

Bradbury used the novel to convey what he thought the trends following World War II could result in. In a sense, “Bradbury saw how television would affect society, and Fahrenheit 451 was an outcome of that vision” (Bohanon 29). Bradbury, through the novel, presents a society in which technology and censorship have caused a society to become extremely corrupt. Certain aspects of the society in the novel, such as conformity and television, mirror aspects of American society, with the ones in the novel being more extreme. After the end of World War II, there was a great change in all aspects of society led by the rise in technological advancements and the results and aftermath of the war. Both brought positive and negative consequences to the United States and the rest of the world. Fahrenheit 451 is a response of the changes in the United States that resulted from the events of and surrounding World War II, and it gives a warning to what could happen to the country if the changes became too

Ira Chernus’ article, “Cheer up, it’s just the end of the world,” addresses the effect of the many apocalyptic worries today on Americans. Chernus begins by introducing the biblical origin, then the dilution, and lastly the multiplication of the ideal apocalypse. The article describes the foundation, biblical apocalypse, as one ending becomes means to a new beginning; a rebirth of this world into a better one. The author depicts the evolution of apocalypse succeeding the biblical era beginning with the nuclear age of World War 2 which introduced the new idea of complete extinction. The article goes on to challenge the blossoming apocalypses that stemmed from the nuclear age with, in Chernus’ opinion, the prominent danger of environmental destruction.

Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, uses his unique writing style to bring his readers to a dark, post-apocalyptic American society that consists of government takeover, book burning, and complete censorship. Bradbury criticizes today’s society by bringing attention to the many faults we as a society have, such as highlighting our attachment to technology and our inability to have a meaningful human connection. People have lost touch with actual human interaction and would rather spend time on their phones or other devices wasting away their life.

The apocalypse is a very popular theme throughout the modern day film and literature industry. In all of these pop culture renditions, the apocalypse and doomsday go hand-in-hand. The apocalypse today is seen as the end of the world, natural disasters, mass illnesses or climate change are said to destroy the world and humankind along with it. However, the term “apocalypse” has been around long before the movies and books. Originally, the apocalypse did not always mean the end of the world. The word “apocalypse” comes from the Greek word “apokalypsis”, which also means “revelation” or to uncover a hidden truth (Dayton 7, 2). Therefore, the original concept of the apocalypse is a disclosure of knowledge, revelation or a lesson to be taught. In

In the book Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury is trying to make the readers to comprehend what minor tragedy there is in this story. The tragedy of opuscules of the past being discovered and completely destroyed as it is against the law. Bradbury succeeds in making his readers feel sympathy for those who have had their precious possessions burned, and possibly their body as well. The tone and feelings pushed onto the reader has very much set up a tragic setting that feels like it will continure on for the rest of the

During the second temple period, Jews faced persecution at the hands of the Greeks and the Romans. They struggled to make sense of their suffering and define the place of their religion in an increasingly assimilated world. Jews had to define who they were and how they would interact with or separate themselves from other cultures and traditions. One of the ways in which people did this was by writing texts to define who they were, where they came from, and what they stood for. Jewish authors during the second temple period used the historical settings in their writings to forward agendas, which were often shaped by present concerns. These historical settings were sometimes fallacious and were written not to accurately depict past events,

One of the writers of the Old Testament that is often spoken as an apocalyptic writer and that is Daniel. Daniel is depicted as an apocalyptic writer because in the Hebrew Bible, Daniel had dreams and visions which also involved angelic intermediaries Daniel 's writings also involve a comprehensive view of prophetic history.

The apocalypse and the post apocalyptic scenario shown in this novel, gives answers to the question raised by Teresa Heffernan in her work the Post-apocalyptic culture:

Muscles ached. My arms almost too weak to hold the axe in my hands. The adrenaline made me feel almost sick, like a fire roasting in my stomach, with an almost sweet pain. The now empty cafeteria stank with the ripe smell of undead. Familiar faces one and all. Eyes blank. A smirk crept to a side of my face. I never liked any of them.

Post-Apocalypse refers to the era following a significant catastrophic event or an utter collapse of a great empire or civilization; ultimately, the struggle for power never ends and war never changes. That being the case, Fallout 4 could be regarded as an exemplary exemplification of this genre because it is classified as a post-apocalyptic survival videogame that thoroughly illustrates the formation of the hazardous environment known as the Wasteland after the total annihilation of United States of America caused by a nuclear apocalypse. First of all, there are three major eras in the history of the Wasteland: the Pre-War era, The Great War, and the Post-War. The Pre-war era refers to the time of the American dream before the nuclear catastrophe,

"I had the feeling that all the human beings on the face of the earth had been killed off, and only the five of us (his family) were left behind in an uncanny world of the dead" (“Bombing”). This was the account of a little boy in fifth grade who had survived the tragedy of Hiroshima in 1945. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombings of Japanese cities by the United States during World War II. Of the thousands of people who died, the horrific tellings of what they saw and what happened to them is a blemish on history. Without a doubt, these actions changed the perspective on war, as this was the only time atomic weapons have ever been used. The events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only altered history, but had a devastating and influential

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Both fathers have experience the life before and after the post apocalyptics, I’ll say that my working definition of post-apocalyptic literature is the aftermath of destruction. Whether it was cause by human (human error) or mother nature. For example in The Walking Dead the destruction was human made because it was a virus outbreak. Gummo was an mother nature's fault because it was an tornado destruction that human themselves cannot make. The Road was between human error and mother nature, I say this because if we didn't make plans then we won't have to worry about it fallen from the sky. But then their the fact that it not our fault it fell from the sky or is it. Post-apocalyptic literature is definition is when a destruction is caused either by humans or mother nature, the character aspect or what is or not and the way you interpret it

Carlie Simmons Post-Apocalyptic is a series of survivalist novels by American author JT Sawyer, real name Tony Nester. The Carlie Simmons novels combine the elements of adventure, post-apocalyptic, and crime thriller in following the life and times of Carlie Simmons, and her team of agents fighting for survival in an unforgiving world. JT Sawyer first published novel in the series was the 2014 published book Until Morning Comes that introduced the lead protagonist secret service agent Carlie Simmons. After the publication of the novel, it fast became a fan favorite and spawned several new novels in the series four of which were written in 2015 alone. With JT Sawyer one of the leading survivalist experts in the world, the novels are inspired