In the novel Station Eleven Emily Mandel shows a common theme that survival is insufficient. Many Character take different paths of survival, some good and some bad . However to live you must survive, but to enjoy it you need to find something worth living for. Mandel shows how survival is insufficient with the use of The Terminal and The Traveling Symphony.
The Traveling Symphony expresses their ability to perform and practice music with their strong family values. The Symphony shows communal qualities by caring for each other. At the start of the Novel the Traveling Symphony walks down sweltering hot fraught territory. The Symphony always stayed together along side with their caravans and crew. In addition they traveled with “scouts, watching for danger ahead …show more content…
The actors and musicians not scouting walked along the path able to ignore the fear of ambush and were able to focus on the play. This trust in eachother built a community that possessed care for its members. In the beginning the Symphony was traveling to St. Deborah in search of their friends Charlie, Jeremy, and their newborn. Their newborn showed that relationships and families were being created in the Traveling Symphony. Their “no member left behind” mentality carried them miles to help reconnect with their friend. After their search through abandoned buildings in the ominous town of St. Deborah, Kirsten opens a Wendy’s door and “imagen(s) this moment, over two years of traveling apart from her friend. Knocking on the flowered door, Charlie answering with a baby in her arms, tears and laughter”(50). Kirsten and The Symphony exhibits their strong relationship with Charlie and Jeremy through their efforts to find them.
The Traveling Symphony expresses their ability to perform and practice music with their strong family values. The Symphony shows communal qualities by caring for each other. At the start of the Novel the Traveling Symphony walks down sweltering hot fraught territory. The Symphony always stayed together along side with their caravans and crew. In addition they traveled with “scouts, watching for danger ahead …show more content…
The actors and musicians not scouting walked along the path able to ignore the fear of ambush and were able to focus on the play. This trust in eachother built a community that possessed care for its members. In the beginning the Symphony was traveling to St. Deborah in search of their friends Charlie, Jeremy, and their newborn. Their newborn showed that relationships and families were being created in the Traveling Symphony. Their “no member left behind” mentality carried them miles to help reconnect with their friend. After their search through abandoned buildings in the ominous town of St. Deborah, Kirsten opens a Wendy’s door and “imagen(s) this moment, over two years of traveling apart from her friend. Knocking on the flowered door, Charlie answering with a baby in her arms, tears and laughter”(50). Kirsten and The Symphony exhibits their strong relationship with Charlie and Jeremy through their efforts to find them.