Earth Abides Chapter Analysis

There is a great innocence in Earth Abides compared to the other post-apocalyptic novels we’ve read. Stewart focuses on raw human emotion with eccentric characters like Ish, and Ezra. The novel focuses on the nature of human civilization and it is r rebuilt. Throughout the opening on the novel, Ish reminisces about how life was before the great disaster, making note of changes because the population is significantly decreased. At the beginning of chapter eight when Ish breaks into the college and relives his days in the library “He had been in the library hundreds of times before, but now under the changed conditions. he felt a strange new sense of awe, here rested in storage the wisdom by which civilization had been built, and could be