In the novel Oryx and Crake, what is the significance of fridge magnets.
Towards the end of the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Jimmy says, “You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he’d thought much about them at the time” as he comment on the fridge magnets that Crake ironically chose and enjoyed. We are presented with a world which has been devastated by a killer virus, and language, in all of its senses has been spliced just like the Crackers. Jimmy desperately and perhaps vainly tries to cling on to words that are now redundant. Snowman is a classic example. Jimmy says to himself “hang on to the words” as if there are some form of liberation in remembering words that are possibly never known to other
Towards the end of the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Jimmy says, “You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he’d thought much about them at the time” as he comment on the fridge magnets that Crake ironically chose and enjoyed. We are presented with a world which has been devastated by a killer virus, and language, in all of its senses has been spliced just like the Crackers. Jimmy desperately and perhaps vainly tries to cling on to words that are now redundant. Snowman is a classic example. Jimmy says to himself “hang on to the words” as if there are some form of liberation in remembering words that are possibly never known to other