Station eleven

 Quotes:

1. "Jeevan found himself thinking about how human the city is, how human everything is. We bemoaned the impersonality of the modern world, but that was a lie, it seemed to him; it had never been impersonal at all. There had always been a massive delicate infrastructure of people, all of them working unnoticed around us…" (Chapter 30)

This quote caught my attention since Jeevan sees several things going down, including the Internet, flowing water, electricity, and broadcast television. He discovers that the seemingly impersonal structure finely woven with human labor and connection as the world falls apart.

Discussion questions:

1. Jeevan realizes that he must make an effort to re-establish himself in his life and his memory in order to prevent losing himself, so he constantly reminds himself of his identity, his objectives, and his past.

2. I believe Mandel is arguing that memory is important because it allows us to recall happy and comforting moments from our past, but it may also serve as a shield, enabling us to forget terrible or scary occurrences that has happen.

3. I believe that the characters in the narrative are unfamiliar with airplanes. Since then, the locations have been grounded because most of the technology is broken. It is incomprehensible to those born after the flu that stories of such enormous objects flying in the sky once existed. It, in my opinion, serves to illustrate just how far humanity has come.