Introduction
Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake (2009) is a piece of speculative fiction that is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which Jimmy the main character believes himself to be the only surviving human on the planet. The novel continuously switches between present and past realities, in which Jimmy is the only narrator. In the present, although Jimmy believes there to be no human life left on earth, he is not alone. With him is a genetically engineered group of human like creature called the Crakers. The Crakers look to Jimmy as a kind of storyteller, who teaches them about where they came from and what happened to the world surrounding them. Through flashbacks, Jimmy remembers the past, where his life story is told, and it becomes
Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake (2009) is a piece of speculative fiction that is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which Jimmy the main character believes himself to be the only surviving human on the planet. The novel continuously switches between present and past realities, in which Jimmy is the only narrator. In the present, although Jimmy believes there to be no human life left on earth, he is not alone. With him is a genetically engineered group of human like creature called the Crakers. The Crakers look to Jimmy as a kind of storyteller, who teaches them about where they came from and what happened to the world surrounding them. Through flashbacks, Jimmy remembers the past, where his life story is told, and it becomes