Station Eleven

Among other animal imagery, birds appear frequently throughout the story in times of crisis. The birds often foreshadow dangers that lie ahead. For instance, when Robert's team takes a wrong turn, "the fog is full of noises"(80) of birds. Then the birds fly out of the ditch and disappear. Robert and Poole know that "[there] must be something terribly wrong...but neither one knew how to put it into words. The birds, being gone, had taken some mysterious presence with them. There was an awful sense of void--as if the world had been emptied" (81). The birds return and when Robert nears the collapsing dike and "one of the birds [flies] up cut[s] across Robert's path" as if it is trying to prevent him from going any further. Robert does not heed the warning and almost dies in the sinking mud.

The reader is not left in confusion, but he is rather left with things wrapped up.

“The Beach is written in the style of a free verse poem consisting of two stanzas, the first one having nineteen lines and the second having twelve. The lines vary significantly in length and feature a large amount of enjambment which stretches over fur lines in some cases. The mood and atmosphere of the poem is extremely relaxed and promotes the reader to feel nostalgic about the last time they themselves visited the beach.

The descriptive imagery that is perpetually represented throughout the poem allows the reader to enter Hayes’s mind. In “Wind in a Box” Hayes explains how people are trapped in a box and must break free. This box that we are incarcerated in restricts us from becoming as enlightened as possible. Furthermore, wind can be light or heavy, but as free and natural as possible. Wind cannot be controlled but it’s a controlled element itself which represents the freedom that people should possess. People are born in this box, which represents everything that the reader listens to that controls them. For example, listening to the media and accepting it without question could throw people deeper into the box that is meant to contain them. To break free, one must research their information and gain an independent mind and with this one will gain individuality. Furthermore, Hayes speaks of completely loving a women in his poem. This reflects back on being free of one’s containment. By having inner freedom only then can one fully love and appreciate another person. Hayes explains this in his story and continues to represent his passionate love for this woman. At last, the main objective that the reader should learn is that they must acquire individuality and independence to escape from the box that places restrictions on their

1. What piece of paper did the author’s mother carry for twenty years, and why did she carry it?

Within this sentence the provision of vivid imagery reinforces how powerful the wind “rattled the tops of the garbage cans, sucked window shades out through the top of opened windows… and it drove most of the people of the street in the block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.” As the novel continues the aggressive actions of the wind causes itself to “wrap newspaper around their feet entangling them until the people cursed

In this essay, I will be discussing the book The Abandonment written by Peter Rock. This paper will detail the facts and feelings behind the argument and in my conclusion; I will discuss the fascination in regards to Book cover #5. I actually took the time to read the material twice the information provided became more educational the further into the novel. I will say that I had to free myself to immerse in a journey of exploration that I probably did not know existed. The reading of the Abandonment put me face to face with the unfamiliar.

The carriage clattered over the rough road, and there were moments when Abigail felt the conveyance tilt upon its wheels, sending her toward the side with her mother's scant weight pressing upon her in grim reminder of how little the frail, ill woman could withstand the rigors of such a journey. Her fingers in Abigail's hand were cold, hardly more than winter twigs. She could feel the fear inside with them, an invisible fog that sapped heat and set her teeth to chattering, despite the warmth of the air.

Plot structure Station Eleven is introduced through the death of Arthur Leander, an actor in the Toronto production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a training EMT, instantly springs to the stage in order to offer Arthur aid during his devastating heart attack. The scene is soon overwhelmed with other EMTs leaving Jeevan to comfort Kirsten Raymond, a child actress and unfortunate witness to Arthur’s death. Following Jeevan, information is received directly from one of Jeevan’s close friends concerning the Georgia Flu epidemic, which at the time was rapidly spreading across the globe. Introducing a post-collapse world, Mandel transitions to year twenty with a primary focus on the Travelling Symphony and an older version of Kirsten Raymond,

Beaches can be associated with vacations or taking an escape from our reality. Morales fantasizes her grandmother in the beach because to Morales her grandmother suffered a lot in her life; the death of her little brother to the betrayal of her sister and she deserve the best compensation. To Morales, the beach is the best place for her grandmother to be. Similarly, to the beach, this fantasy that her grandmother is “sipping from a coconut” also demonstrates the idea of effort paying off and begin fruitful in life. The beach is significant because through the beach it symbolizes death, but not as a terminal

Before taking this course, I always looked at films and read books just as the average person does; interesting plot and how long will it hold my interest, but this course gave me an entire different perspective when watching films and reading books. Now that I have taken this course and have watched the required films, the most important thing when watching other movies and reading books, is the meaning behind each scene and how they relate and affect our world. For this paper, I will discuss a book that I read a long time ago, which is She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb and how this book relates to this course.

We all dream of an ulterior world, a world in which we picture a perfect life with no struggles, problems, or pandemics. Both Interstellar, by Christopher Nolan, and Station Eleven by Emily Mandel, depict their characters as struggling not only with survival, but their sense of their own identity and security. Within Station Eleven, the saying, “survival is insufficient” is a recurring theme of Interstellar as well. While there are some differences in the characters and themes within Interstellar and Station Eleven, the similarities are the connections to their identity in which they adapt to the force of change within their world. As the characters struggle with adapting, they cling to certain things that allow them to remain sane. As a result, the characters feel like they have a purpose again due to their struggle for survival.

Arthur was a significant presence in Station Eleven. Even though Arthur died before the pandemic, he still managed to be a significant presence in the lives he encountered. For example, because of the lack of his father, Arthur, in his life, Tyler would become the leader of violent, religious cult. Another example of Arthur being a significant presence involved his encounter with Jeevan. Arthur was having a heart attack and Jeevan attempts to save Arthur’s life. Although he didn’t save Arthur, Jeevan’s encounter with Arthur reassured Jeevan that he really did want to become a doctor. Arthur had a big impact on the lives of the people he encountered, and he didn’t even realize it.

The narrator’s feelings of inferiority and powerlessness parallels the female figure she sees trapped behind the pattern in the wall-paper adorning her room. She gradually withdraws from both John and reality by locking herself in the room and ultimately merging with the figure. Through the changing image of the pattern from a “fait figure” (Gilman 46) to a “woman stooping” (Gilman 46) behind the paper and “shaking the bars” (Gilman 46) as if she wanted “to get out” (Gilman 46), we can see her becoming one with the figure: “I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.”(51) Her collapse into madness as reflected in her behavior with the “bedstead [that] is fairly gnawed” (Gilman 51) and her “creeping all around” (Gilman 50) is a direct result of her passive submissiveness to John’s control of her life.

One can agree that during the day, the beach can be a noisy place: music, kids, and talkative individuals can all make a difference in the pleasantness of your beach day. During the day in the Bahamas it is quite loud due to the numerous tourists in the area who want to party and have a good time, but at dusk, it stops. Little by little the beach gets less populated with clamorous people and feels more like your own oasis. You begin to hone in on the sounds: the rave music is now more calming; it is maybe playing reggae or something else soothing. The seagulls seem to chirp less, and you are suddenly all alone. As you walk down the beach waiting for the sun to set you feel the softness of the sand, and look back to see how your feet have been molded to become one with the beach. When the sun sets and the sky radiates comforting colors, you begin to feel different: the beach resonates the warmth of the sky through your feet, up into your heart. You look around and see the landscape of the beach has been made lively by the colors of the sky. The rocks blush from the sky’s red tint, and the palm trees look to be slow dancing in the warming breeze. Your body is captured by good feelings and is hypnotized by the sunset’s effect on this beach. There is still one last element to the whole picture