Theme Of Archetype In Monument 14

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“Night came and fell hard. Not like God drawing a blanket over our land but like someone snuffing a candle. Sudden and total. Out--just like that” (Laybourne, Monument 14 118). Most, if not all of people have read a book or have seen a film that starts out with a typical morning, meeting the average characters, the tall scrawny reclusive kid with a semi-normal life, not expecting a disaster to strike; then turns out to be a thrilling, dark survival film with the nerd no one notices becoming pretty well important? In the book Monument 14, it is the apocalypse archetype we have all encountered through films and or other books. To be more specific, an Archetype is an universal symbol, also the term used by Jung’s idea of recurring patterns of

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