As I was reading the novel, Station Eleven, it got me thinking a lot about life itself. It’s overall plot you could say is a flu epidemic. Station Eleven opens during a production of
Shakespeare’s King Lear in Toronto. An older man named Arthur, a Hollywood actor, is onstage with a little girl named Kirsten. Arthur had seemed to be acting as if he was having a heart attack so Jeevan, a former paparazzo, jumps on stage to attempt to save Arthur with CPR. As a doctor and paramedics take over. They could not. Jeevan then goes and tries to comfort Kirsten and explains to her that Arthur was dead. Kirsten was young, and didn’t understand a lot of what was going on. All of this only for a type of flu called “The Georgia Flu” to break out, and the story to take place.
Station…show more content… Needless to say, people are dying, lives are changing.
At the time, no one even knew Arthur was dying, they thought he was acting. Jeevan knew otherwise and proceeded to take action. Every move you make, could have a stronger impact than you may think. It really gets to you when you think about how fast life comes and goes. Life, people, everything changes. Nothing really ever stays the same. Kirsten learned that about Arthur when he passed. 1as the story grows, the significance of a person, and where exactly they connect. It’s kind of like this: You meet a person, and that moment have no idea the impact this person can have on your life. They could either have a good one, or a bad one. Either way, they’re there for a reason.
It bounces back from before to after the collapse and if you blink you might miss something. It’s just really an attention grabber. Many of the scenes in the novel relate to an art and music theme. There’s a part in the book where an orchestra comes and plays, despite the fact there’s a flu killing people. Life goes on despite terrible things that go on in the world. There is a flu killing
