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Station Eleven: A Literary Analysis
While reading section five, it occurred to me that I believe Station Eleven will always be favored by most people, but it will never be someone’s favorite novel.

Personally, my three favorite books include Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I have just realized all the books mentioned are non-fiction texts. Anyway, I enjoy Albom’s memoir because I gained an abundant amount of knowledge and life lessons after reading it. The memoir was emotional, I might have cried three times. Before, I never thought I would come across a book that I could not put down; this book was definitely an exception. The other two texts were also full of emotion and the author’s writing intrigued
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For example, after the prophet and a few of his followers died before they were going to kill Kirsten, Handel describes what Kirsten sees and hears: “[Kirsten] felt the vibration of hooves on the road now. August shouted her name and she looked up as the Symphony’s forward scouts rounded the curve of the road on horseback like a vision from a dream, Viola and Jackson, sunlight glinting on their weapons and on the binoculars that hung on Viola’s neck” (303). Really. Right after Kirsten is about to die but then the boy saves her and the other followers die, two members from the symphony come to “save” her again. Everything happens the way it should, it seems too perfect. Everything is artificial and it does not even seem coincidental.

Also, everything was right in your face. It was easy to predict Tyler was the prophet because she gave the younger and older version of Tyler the same description. She should have not physically described the prophet so there could be some mystery. There was no mystery. This is a sci-fi book, there should be unknowns and mystery, this book lacked in that field greatly.

In order to have a good story, there needs to be emotion or entertainment. There is no emotion and it is not greatly entertaining because it is too predictable. I still think Station Eleven is a great book, but it will never be a story I’ll put in my top five books to read and I strongly believe other people would

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