Station Eleven Book Analysis

In the book Clark is Arthur’s close friend. Both Arthur and Clark attempt to make it in the acting world, Clark ends up taking the position of a job training executive before the collapse. After the collapse he finds himself stranded in the Severn City Airport. After he spends some time in the airport he begins to collect technology and other items that exemplified the past. He pulls all of the collection together to form the Museum of Civilization and curates it. Him creating the museum is an example of him attempting to remember the past. Clark often does little things to remember the past, on page 276 Mandel writes this about him, “His dear friend Annette had died of an unknown

In Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, there is a scene that resonated with me personally. In this scene the main character Raymonde says, “What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost” (Mandel 195) In this scene, Kristen and Francois are having a conversation about memory and how not having memory can be a positive if something awful happened in the past. Kirsten is talking about how she doesn’t remember anything from before the Georgia Flu due to the fact that she was eight years old when the pandemic hit and wiped out most of the population. Kristen is explaining that the people that are having the hardest time in this new world and the ones who still have memories of the past. They are focused on what the world used to be that they can’t see what the new world could be like. Those who are young and can’t remember the world before the pandemic can more easily move on because they have nothing to compare the new world to. She illuminates to the audience the toughest choice the characters face throughout this novel : do they protect their old identity by clinging to pieces of the old world or do they accept that they need to forget what the world was once like and move on?

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Looks ahead, that is where your future lies.” This quote from Ann Landers perfectly describes the book Station Eleven because it shows us how Arthur Leander life decisions affected other characters in the story even right after he passed away. The novel starts with the famous known actor, Arthur Leander, who died from a heart attack in a Shakespeare play called King Lear. Then we time skip to 20yrs after to our main character who’s named Kirsten Raymonde surviving through the apocalyptic destruction of the world cause by called the Georgia flu that had happen. Station Eleven was mainly about characters like Kirsten, The Prophet (Tyler), Jeevan, and Miranda whose lives were changed due to the life choices

The research facility further abuses its institutional power by fabricating information about Jon’s mother and using it to influence Jon emotionally. Understanding that Jon would be more inclined to stay at the research facility if he had memories of a caring mother telling him to work hard, the institution decides to conceal the truth about his indifferent biological mother and alters his memory loop with lies. Jon is not the only one whose memories have been

The events from the past matter because they have already occurred and some will likely repeat in the future. The past is a group of mistakes and successes that someone can learn about and learn from so that they do not make the same mistakes:, instead, they create more successes. The literary devices that the author used in this novel are symbolism, imagery, and allegory. In Jack Gantos’s narrative Dead End in Norvelt, he uses the theme of remembering history to demonstrate that past mistakes should be learned from, and therefore, avoided;. Yet, also allowing people to grow and improve their overall human nature.

The nature of one's history has an inevitable effect on their future. In many cases, the forthcoming situations that one faces are based on recollections of the past and their interpretation of it. Within the novel, Station Eleven, author Emily St. John Mandel develops a plethora of characters whose past actions and memories have a considerable effect on their future. This is exemplified through the impact that Arthur's turmoil lifestyle has on him as he ages, Tyler's development of radicalistic beliefs due to his exposure towards profound ideology from a very young age, along with Kirsten's change in perspective and formation of interests due to prior actions and memories.

Many cities across the United states have started the One City , One Book project, like Chicago and even Denver. Fort Morgan as a community deserves to also get to try out these new activities that would benefit our community greatly in many aspects. The community of Fort Morgan would benefit from the One City/One Book project because of the diversity in Fort Morgan, it will keep people involved and encouraged to try something new, and it may open up people’s mind. We should have a one book one city project centered around Enriquez Journey as our first book because the book talks about immigration and gives many statistical information. It is a great choice because elections are right around the corner and it is a topic that has been discussed

A recurring theme in the book Station Eleven is the past and its importance. There has been conflicting feelings about whether or not they should continue to remember and teach people about the past. I believe it is important to remember the past and to learn where you came from even if it is not all good.

“Learn from the past, live in present, prepare for the future.” (personalize this) This was a theme often shown in The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. In the book, Dessen used characters as symbols to express the importance of each character. Throughout the book all the characters had experienced heart wrenching, and emotionally tragic events; on the flip side, they each possessed memories in which they felt like they were on cloud nine.

The past has a great affect on all people, whether it is for good or for bad. It shapes who people are and who they will one day become. The past can create fears and haunt you but it cannot be changed and cannot be forgotten. The theme of the past being innescapable is seen in two major characters throughout the book A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines. One of these characters, Grant, the only educated black boy in his entire connunity, lives with his aunt, Tante Lou.

Jalapeno bagels is about a boy named Pablo whom cannot decide what to take to school for International Day. He wants to bring something from his parents’ baker. He wants something that represent his heritage but he cannot decide what to bring. His mother who is Mexican baked pan dulce and change bars. His father who is Jewish baked bagels and challah. Both of the bake good were good but while helping his parents with the bakery on Sunday morning, Pablo made a decision on what to bring. He decided to bring jalapeno bagels because they are a mixture both of his parents and just like him too. The multicultural representations in the story line is Mexican and Jewish. The pictures that were drawn in the book, the family has the same color of skin even though the parents are different cultures and the main character is mixed. There were no different skin colors.

The core pages in the Big Book structure their information in a step by step fashion. It begins with Bill’s Story. The story of how Bill started his own journey through alcoholism and became a founding member of A.A. The following chapters target the alcoholic in different areas of their life. Chapter two and three talk about how, through science, spirituality, and personal experience, the founding authors discovered the solution to their alcoholic illness and the ways they could beat it. Chapter four targets the alcoholic who may shy away from the religious or spiritual talk about “God” and how the program handles the idea of God or a “higher power” as those in the group see it. Chapter five and six are the nuts

A book that is written by author to make peoples laugh to forgot sadness . In this, the third Gideon Box novel, Locke asks us to consider what might happen were we to take a back-woods Appalachian mountain girl (Trudy) and emigrate her to sophisticated New York City as Gideon Box's girlfriend. Will she survive high society when her pedigree is one of being married momentarily to her brother (whom she thought was her cousin) and subsequently thrown by Gideon into high society, mindful that she is not up to sparring intelligently on matters of politics, music, culture and being ever so polite (and incredibly sexy to the point of distracting every male that comes near her and tolerating the raving jealousy of wives) until she's had enough and

My Father’s Notebook: A Novel of Iran by Kader Abdolah is told from two points of view: one from a narrator & another from one of the main character. The novel focuses on the lives Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute carpet mender, & his son, Ishmael. The story starts off in Aga’s home village of Jirya—located near Saffron Mountain in Iran—and moves to surrounding areas as well as Flevopolder, Netherlands—the current home of Ishmael. Encouraged by his uncle, Aga develops his own written language based on cuneiform inscribed in a sacred cave on Saffron Mountain ordered by the first Persian king 3,000 years ago. Ishmael is now attempting to decode his father’s words into a book in Dutch after Aga’s death while the narrator describes events unknown to

There are many characters trying to run away from things in the book Station 11. Most of the characters were running away from literal things such as the Georgia flu while others were running away from figurative things such as reasoning and science. Many characters such as Arthur, Miranda, Jeevan, and Elizabeth ran away from literal and figurative things.