Station Eleven

  

“We’ve admitted over two hundred flu patients since this morning,” Hua said. “A hundred and sixty in the past three hours. Fifteen of them have died. The ER’s full of new cases. We’ve got beds parked in hallways”(Mandel 20).

 

This passage reminded me of the days of Covid-19, how the situation was so bad, and how terror lives in people's hearts. The disease is new, has no cure, and is transmitted very quickly. It reminded me of how most hospitals don't have beds for patients and only make them for serious cases.

 

“I’m saying you should leave now. Or if you can’t leave, at least stock up on food and stay in your apartment”(Mandel 21).

 

This passage left me with a strange feeling. I remembered the same situation I was in when my mother called me. I was living here alone, and that made her feel even more scared because I wasn't by her side, and she was watching the news saying that there was a bad health conditions in America and how the situation was going from bad to worse. She used to tell me not to leave the apartment except in emergencies, and once asked me to go back to Egypt until the crisis was over, but my answer was no.

 

• When Jeevan receives the series of phone calls from Hua, he realizes that his life will be divided by a “before and after.” In what ways was your life also impacted by the Covid pandemic? Had this pandemic been as bad as the Georgian Flu described in the novel, what do you think you would have missed most from your old life?

 

 

My life was impacted in terms of social life I couldn’t see my friends, I was forced to leave Illinois state to live in another state. I couldn’t even travel back to Egypt. Yes, it was as bad as the Georgian flu described in the novel. What I will miss and still miss is social life and playing soccer.

 

 

 

 

 

• What have we are beginning to learn about Arthur since his death through other characters? Discuss the foreshadowing in this line: “This was during the final month of the era when it was possible to press a series of buttons on a telephone and speak with someone on the far side of the earth.”

 

 

This phrase highlights the frailty of modern society and sets the setting for the collapse of civilization that follows the Georgian Flu pandemic. It suggests that a significant change is about to occur that will render this technological advancement obsolete.