Mandel Station 11 Analysis

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Humans are weak. There are so many ways to terminate human’s “legendary” civilization. Nuclear war wipes every organism on this planet. Hurricane squeezes planes and vehicles.
Earthquake and tsunami brings down humans’ lofty constructions. Then, a tiny protein mutation of ordinary flu virus reaps humans’ fragile souls. At last, nature takes everything. However, there are conventions of the genre of the world apocalypse in people’s minds, which means every catastrophe we have ever watched in movies or read in books has common causes The first convention of post-apocalypse genre is the power of nature overwhelm everything. In Mandel’s science-fiction novel, Station Eleven, human civilization is in danger because of a mutated, deadly virus,

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