In the novel Station Eleven the author Emily St. John Mandel uses characters and different situations throughout the book to show us how humans are able to resilience.
Through the character Jeevan, mandel is showing us resilience. After days of walking the only thing jeevan is constantly repeating is,“Keep walking.Keep walking. keep walking”(pg.194), even though Jeevan has been walking for more than five days and he is cold,hungry, and alone the only thing he keeps telling himself is to keep walking and don’t stop even though he doesn’t have anybody waiting for him in a specific location or anything like that but he is still pushing himself to survive. “it was becoming more difficult to hold on to himself”(pg.194), After seeing
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“and so when you left, you just kept walking with no destination in mind”(pg.198), after the flu Kirsten lived in Toronto with her brother but kirsten and her brother left Toronto with no real destination in mind and ended up in Ohio, and after her brother died of an infection she lived alone there before joining the traveling symphony.Mandel shows us how “normal” the new world is to kirsten, when kirsten,august, and an older member of the traveling symphony went into an abandoned school to scavenger hunt the older member of the symphony was disgusted by what she saw and she asked august and kirsten how they even could do this and kirsten told her the reason she could do this is because she is younger than her and she remembers little of the old world. I think mandel is trying to say that the younger you were when the epidemic happened the faster you are able to resilience because you don’t remember much of the world being different in the first place, “We went to a place where the children didn’t know the world had ever been different”(pg.115), and I think that is helping them to resilience faster than the adults that have hard time believing that their world is gone,“maybe it’s time we let go”(pg.270), even if they have managed to adapt to the new world and started over a new civilization they still refuse to believe the old world is truly …show more content…
After the georgia flu has wiped out the majority of the human population, Clark started a museum of civilization to make sure the new born generations and the old generations didn’t completely forget the old world.He collected devices and put them in a glass box to let people see them and he usually explains to kids how the different devices were used before the flu.“they traded languages. by day eighty most of the people who’d arrived without english were learning it”(pg.252), The people that didn’t know english learned english because they needed to communicate with each other and it’s difficult if you don’t speak a common language that everybody understood so they learned english and the english speakers learned one of the foreign languages.They cooperated to find food, protect each other, and they helped clark to start the museum of civilization by giving him devices and other objects. “i’d thought i was the only one”(pg.257), After days in the airport a man came walking to the airport, clark and the other passenger met him outside the airport and the man was crying that he believed he was the last human left and he was crying out of happiness that there were other people. I think mandel is showing us through this specific character that resilience is a natural thing for humans because he seriously believed that he was the last human on the planet and by just knowing that you would ask
He did not choose to have this way of life, but is forced by his
People are defined by their past. The past holds a person’s reputation, relationships, and decisions. All these factors lead to a person’s present. This idea is heavily explored in the novel Station Eleven. The author, Emily St. John Mandel, spends a significant portion of the book in various flashbacks to explain a character’s present. The past is sporadically interspersed into the telling of the present storyline. These random jumps force the reader to pay close attention to whether it is the past or present. Emily Mandel uses the past, in the form of flashbacks, as a device to further develop her characters. The author of Station Eleven uses flashbacks to show contrast in characters, explain relationships, and reveal a character’s motive.
undergoes life with anguish and suffering but manages to stay alive using his quality of
In the short story, “Eleven”, by Sandra Cisneros, the main character, Rachel, had just turned eleven. Throughout the story, Rachel explains how a person is never one specific age and will demonstrate different age characteristics throughout life. Rachel states that “some days you might say something stupid, and that’s the part of you that’s still ten.” She conveys how age is just a number and a person will never let that part of you go. The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses several literary devices throughout the short story to characterize Rachel.
	People inevitably encounter many problematic situations in their lifetime. Some problems may be more serious than others, but the fact remains that it is alsways their choice as to how they will react and whether or not they will "sink or swim." A survivor is aperson who, depite whatever hardships they encounter, will face their problems head on and will not back down. They always do whatever humanly possible overcome these obstaclsand supersede eveyone’s excpectations and sometimes even their own. Such people share common characteristics ; steadfest courage, the ability to adapt and adjust and a perservering attitude. Through Jim and Masdeline Dubois the central characters in Dust Over the City, the author presents such a case as shown through their many ordeals and their reactions to them. This is evident in their encounter with other and Alains patients, their battle with loneliness and the decision to move to the mining town, adjusting to the new city and accepting the fact with little provisions this is where they must live now. In Andre Langevins novel Dust Over the City the characters Alain and Madeline are the embodiment of two people that are newly wed and the problems that each other face may or may not be normal.
Humanity redeems itself from catastrophe in the form of ingenuity. Through the creation of art and contribution to society, populations make life sufficient enough to live. This form of redemption is apparent is Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. After the world is infected by a virus called the Georgian Flu, those who survive must find a way to fulfill their lives on Earth. Art is used to remind them of their humanity, of their civilization. The world becomes so local after the plague and art is the escape. It provides connection, perspective, and most of all, hope that there is more to be discovered. Mandel argues that ingenuity constitutes a sufficient life and that this provides a form of redemption for individuals.
After listening to all my classmate’s presentations, I was amazed at how great they all were. The students all provided informational content, well organized, and the delivery and communication of the information was well discussed. The students were able to reinstate Texas historical figures that have never been heard of or individuals that have been forgotten.
However, he never surrenders. He keeps pushing through it all whilst knowing his sentencing to
Survival is a necessity that individual needs to know and it needs to be done daily to ensure that humans are able to live on. There are many people in the world that are living well off, yet many people suffer from deadly diseases, food, and the impact from the war. In the following literature, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, The Kite Runner by Khald Hosseini, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant all show that survival is a key element. Survival is significant for us as human beings; it would is shown differently in the four literatures.
...ation they risk a change in living conditions, being out of place in their hometown and being isolated. When Clark’s Aunt moved to Nebraska, she gave up some of the things she loved. Music became a minimal part in her life and she grew isolated. When hearing a symphony again, her soul was awakened to the wonder of music and she didn’t want to leave. Her soul fit in Boston, but her appearance did not. She stood our because of the years spent in the country. Her living conditions had shaped he into something Boston wasn’t used to. She was a good person, but no longer fit in. When we make changes in our lives we have to remember that we can’t lose what we love during the process. In order to be happy we have to strive to bring what we love into the place we live.
faced with his own demise, grasps at any concept of freedom and safety to help him cope
almost as Fate were deeming it necessary for him to die, and that he had no
... he starts to think more of how he may die. When he is finally pushed over the edge of the pit, which could be considered being pushed over the edge of insanity, everything comes rushing back to reality when he is grabbed by a General.
There will be lots of trials in a person’s life. Some will be small like having to pass classes. Some will be bigger like when a friend moves away. Some are extremely large and can disable you, however some believe that even the biggest challenges that life throws at you can be conquered by just not giving up. One of these people is Yann Martel where in his book Life of Pi, he shows that anything is possible if you don’t give up. This is evident throughout the entire plot where Pi keeps trying to stay alive.
Around the world, many people are faced with adversities and constant obstacles in their life that they will have to overcome. People often have to face adversities such as death, poverty, illness, disabilities, and environmental issues on a daily. Many people can overcome the adversities they are faced with, while others may struggle and need help overcoming their situation. Never the less if a person fails or succeeds in their attempt of overcoming their situation, this is still a part of their resilience.