No more drivers getting annoyed by jamming on busy freeways. No more crowds thronging on the venerable marble roads beside the Union Square Park. No more travelers standing at the center of the Time Square and smiling to their cameras. No more children picking up snowballs and throwing to each other, except sometimes, they use shovels instead to collect snow for water resources. No more vagrants wandering in dark alleys with wrecked shopping carts in their hands.
No more electricity powers. No more white vapor pouring into the air from the ground during the winter. No more energy for heaters to keep the apartments warm. No more mouthwatering cheeseburgers and mellow black coffee offering in Jacklyn’s dinner, except those with maggots. No more …show more content…
Mandel’s story that begins with “no more” has a common feature. First, this kind of story can only describe situations or conditions that was once exist but now do not anymore. Although her story is based on the background of world apocalypse, she focuses on the loss of trivial stuffs such as films and ball games. In my opinion, the reason she writes them is she wants to emphasize the value of resources that people can easily and conveniently reach in daily life before the doomsday.
Furthermore, Mandel also writes specific details to compose vivid images in readers’ mind. For example, she writes “No more concert stages lit by candy-colored halogens, no more electronica, punk, electric guitars” (31). “Candy-colored halogen” is supposed to do nothing with the theme of this novel, but it can quickly draw people to imagine the pictures of a joyful theatre which has brought endless happiness to audiences every night before being destroyed. Mandel tries to warn about people would never learn to cherish the resources around them until they lose
No more electricity powers. No more white vapor pouring into the air from the ground during the winter. No more energy for heaters to keep the apartments warm. No more mouthwatering cheeseburgers and mellow black coffee offering in Jacklyn’s dinner, except those with maggots. No more …show more content…
Mandel’s story that begins with “no more” has a common feature. First, this kind of story can only describe situations or conditions that was once exist but now do not anymore. Although her story is based on the background of world apocalypse, she focuses on the loss of trivial stuffs such as films and ball games. In my opinion, the reason she writes them is she wants to emphasize the value of resources that people can easily and conveniently reach in daily life before the doomsday.
Furthermore, Mandel also writes specific details to compose vivid images in readers’ mind. For example, she writes “No more concert stages lit by candy-colored halogens, no more electronica, punk, electric guitars” (31). “Candy-colored halogen” is supposed to do nothing with the theme of this novel, but it can quickly draw people to imagine the pictures of a joyful theatre which has brought endless happiness to audiences every night before being destroyed. Mandel tries to warn about people would never learn to cherish the resources around them until they lose