Tracy Clair answers “does it bother anyone that in the 20 years...”

Catherine Goldwyn asked this question about Station Eleven:

does it bother anyone that in the 20 years since these people got slammed and the human race got almost wiped away , no one thought about going to a library and figuring out how to rebuild? I mean, all the information is there - in writing, in books! All of it - for all the ages! For me, this was nagging me the whole time

Tracy Clair I thought that was the point of the the last few pages, when someone had managed to set up electricity for an entire town. There were so many other th…moreI thought that was the point of the the last few pages, when someone had managed to set up electricity for an entire town. There were so many other things that had to be done before people could even think about rebuilding, such as safety and survival. It's kind of like starting all over, if you think about how far we've come since the beginning of time.

That was also the point of the discussion, do we teach our kids about the way things used to be, and I think that the answer is yes. Without everyone knowing how things used to be, we can't become a better society.(less)

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Robert Goodman That bit showed that their world intersected with that of "Lucifer's Hammer" ;-) ...more
Apr 26, 2016 07:22AM · flag

Jcb Unfortunately, I don't think we do do a very good job teaching our kids the way things used to be. That's why programs like the Boy Scouts and Girl Sc ...more
Dec 26, 2018 11:31PM · flag

Ian Yeah I'd echo what Tracy said, one of the major themes of both the novel and the comic-book Station Eleven inside the novel is this tug & pull between ...more
Jul 20, 2020 11:32AM · flag

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