Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon has more meaning than just a title of a random book. Randy and Mark Bragg, brothers, knew a nuclear war was coming but did not want anyone to know about it. Mark lived in Omaha while Randy lived in Florida. They would communicate back and forth to each other, via telephone or telegram, and “Alas Babylon” was their codename (Frank 14). Codename was a warning for a nuclear war was coming and if it were to spread to the family, they would all freak out. Alas, Babylon had another meaning besides the code name and that was Babylon, a city of sin, which was a city, destroyed by God described that way in the Bible. That would make sense of why they used it because more than likely the nuclear war would destroy them like what
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In this book the nuclear war hits and everyone is panicking and no one really knows what to do then the survival mode kicks in and saves them. Some have it and others do not. As the book goes on they are running on hope, hope that they will live to see another day and the hope that they will not die from radiation poisoning. Pat Frank explores three types of hope; never giving up, no hope, and the biggest heart. That is where Doctor Dan Gunn comes into play. He helps as many people as possible at the best of his abilities. On the other hand, the banker of the town of Fort Repost had no hope to even try to survive and just simply ends his life. The children are the complete opposite. They are not giving up on anything and are going to work for everything they get. Alas Babylon not only shows you hope to survive but why you should even …show more content…
Before the nuclear fallout covered many miles, “immense areas contaminable by a single bomb undoubtedly make radioactive fallout potentially one of the most lethal effects of nuclear war,” this harmed more people and goods then everyone would think (Funk & Wagnalls Editorial Staff). With the nuclear fallout this meant that if you had goods they were worth more than actually paper money. Some came to the bank to retrieve their money they had been working for but no one knew in a short while that it would be worth next to nothing. No one really knew that they needed to “worry about food and water, gas and electricity,” (Brains). Stores that carried all these goods were wiped clean, everyone one had posted, “SORRY. NO MORE GAS,” and from here on out if you needed anything you had to trade (Frank
In this book the nuclear war hits and everyone is panicking and no one really knows what to do then the survival mode kicks in and saves them. Some have it and others do not. As the book goes on they are running on hope, hope that they will live to see another day and the hope that they will not die from radiation poisoning. Pat Frank explores three types of hope; never giving up, no hope, and the biggest heart. That is where Doctor Dan Gunn comes into play. He helps as many people as possible at the best of his abilities. On the other hand, the banker of the town of Fort Repost had no hope to even try to survive and just simply ends his life. The children are the complete opposite. They are not giving up on anything and are going to work for everything they get. Alas Babylon not only shows you hope to survive but why you should even …show more content…
Before the nuclear fallout covered many miles, “immense areas contaminable by a single bomb undoubtedly make radioactive fallout potentially one of the most lethal effects of nuclear war,” this harmed more people and goods then everyone would think (Funk & Wagnalls Editorial Staff). With the nuclear fallout this meant that if you had goods they were worth more than actually paper money. Some came to the bank to retrieve their money they had been working for but no one knew in a short while that it would be worth next to nothing. No one really knew that they needed to “worry about food and water, gas and electricity,” (Brains). Stores that carried all these goods were wiped clean, everyone one had posted, “SORRY. NO MORE GAS,” and from here on out if you needed anything you had to trade (Frank