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Emily Mandel's Station 11: Pandemic
While reading Station Eleven, it shocked me to hear about the pandemic flu that wiped out the human race and diminished everything. Me, being curious, I did a little research on what the post-pandemic was like for the survivors in Station Eleven. I discovered that the author, Emily Mandel, put a unique twist on the post- pandemic state of humanity. At this point, I couldn't help but wonder, " what would life after a pandemic actually look and feel like." The pandemic is over and life must go on right? Inevitably our minds wonder to the idea of people filling their bags with personal items, photos of loved ones, canned goods, and water, but that way of life would only last for so long. There are limited amounts of everything including knowledge.
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