Station 11 final blog

 

1. In Section Seven (42-47), we meet up again with Clark and there’s a chapter with Jeevan as well. Discuss the progression of the characters since we’ve seen them last. In this section, how do people find ways to survive both physically and mentally?

1. The characters have grown and changed tremendously. They are now moving forward with their lives and the way the world is the way it is and they are adjusted their lives to represent that. We get Clark's past and how he got to start the museum in the airport and what it meant to him. It is a sliver of the past keeping things alive in people's minds because he is able to teach about them and keep stories alive about different objects that we used to look at as meaningless but now are a representation of the past. Jeevan is now living in a community he has met a girl and she is now his wife, they have children, and people relay on him to be there. He acts as the doctor in the community because he is the closest one with any sort of medical training, so he takes care of people. He tries his best to help the wounded dying and sick and i think this drives him partially or majorly by the situation of his brother and how he was ill, and now he is helping people survive. 

1. Why is the Museum of Civilization important to the residents of the airport?  What does it provide them with? If you were building your own “Museum of Civilization” about this current moment, what would you include?

2. The Museum is important because it is a piece of their history that they alone get to keep alive and they get the opportunity to share that with others. It is something that they built out of nothing in a time where hope was all gone and society had collapsed entirely. It provides them a sense of purpose in life something for them to share and something they think is important. I would Include my phone, my Keurig coffee maker, someone's vape cause I think it would be funny cause it is such a huge thing at this time, Airpod max's books, an xbox, PS5, Nintendo switch, and an Owala water bottle. 

1. Once members of the Symphony begin to go missing, the group embarks on a coordinated rescue mission, arguably endangering everyone in the group for the sake of the missing.  Given the hostile and violent realities of the world in the novel, is this decision wise?  Why? Who or what would be worth you endangering yourself for?  Who or what would be worth endangering your family for? Endangering your school?  Your entire city?  Your country? Where do you draw this line?

3. Although I do not think it was necessarily wise, I think it was an important decision. They are a group, more than friends, more than family, they are each others everything, and all that they truly have to relay on. I would endanger myself for a lot of things, I am a people pleaser and definitely and empath and will always choose another persons's safety and happiness over my own if they are important to me. 

1. In section Eight, Kirsten and other members of the Symphony face death. What happens? In the midst of all the violence that ensues, where do the characters (and Kirsten in particular) find hope?

They come face to face with the prophet because they took a 12 year old child as a stow away because she was going to be taken to be another bride of the prophet's. Kristen kills and archer saving herself, and comes face to gun with the prophet and is facing death. The prophet quotes something from station eleven and Kristen continues the quote. One of the prophets's followers comes to his senses with this and kills the prophet right there and then kills himself.