Le Nuage Vert Character Analysis

Imagine that you were part of a small group of humans that survived the petrification of humanity. What would you do with only a small group of friends to help you make good choices? Would you embrace the wilderness or hold firm, hanging on the final remnants of human society? In the novel, Le Nuage Vert, these are the exact questions the main characters have to answer. It all started one morning in summerhill. Neill was teaching his class when Neill’s old friend and renowned engineer, Pyecraft arrives in his airship. He came because he wanted his old friend and his old friend’s students to form a crew to help him break the world record set for altitude. After rising above the clouds, a crew member notices something strange, "Look! The clouds
After they realize just how massive of an event the green cloud was, the crew makes a very important decision: they must survive to find and assist any other remaining survivors. To this end, one of the crew members checks the radio for any emergency broadcasts shortly after they land. “‘We'll switch on the radio’, and she began to turn the dial knob. Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Rome...not a sound from them. ‘Try America on the short waves’, suggested Bunny, but America was also silent.” (Neill 23). Although they found nothing at first, this decision ends up driving the novel. Because they decided to check for other survivors, they managed to save the life of a german engineer, “Neill took the speaking trumpet and in his best German shouted to the man below to come down to the level, for the airship could not ground on the mountain side. When they had landed he came panting towards them. They all stared at the man. He was in rags … He began to tell his story. His name was Fritz Apfelkuchen … He was a radio engineer, and had been sent to the summit of the mountain to try experiments with a new portable broadcasting apparatus.” (Neill 47-48) and the lives of a group of people stuck atop the Andes Mountains “on the