Section 6 Chapter 41
“Exhaustion. She was desperately hot, then wracked with chills.
Her thoughts were disordered. No one came” (Mandel, 227).
Miranda suddenly felt a high fever, realizing that she might
have contracted the flu and that is why there is little staff in the hotel. There
was a time I had a cold that has been going around for a while. That cold hit
me hard with a high fever and it took me a while to get out of bed and take
medications for it.
Section 7 Chapter 44
“There seem to be a limitless number of objects in the world
that had no practical use, but that people wanted to preserve:” (Mandel, 258).
This quote makes me wonder what I would have saved in this
era. Maybe the same things they did, maybe a collection of art. I do appreciate
museums and artwork pieces, especially historical artifacts because they leave
a great impact.
1.
The airplane serves as both an innovation and the acceleration
of a disaster. People who were born after the Georgian Flu cannot fathom being
carried up in the air and flying like a bird, hence the airplane is seen as a
powerful invention. Because Tyler, the Prophet, remembered being in awe of how
large and strong it is, and because he made all of his partners get tattoos of
it, the airplane became a potent symbol for him. Disaster was also produced by
it. They readily caught the flu thanks to the assistance of airlines and those
flying in and out, and as a result, it spread around the world.
2.
The characters are all grown. Kirsten had to be brutal
to survive and she has tattoos that symbolize how many people she killed. Clark
is now a 70-year-old person who works at a museum in Sovern City. Tyler became adamant
about his religious belief, destroying anyone who does not go his way. Jeevan
is married to Daria and now is a settlement doctor. There were many ways people
found to survive. Some of them were grateful for the small things around us and
appreciated the old world they took for granted, some had become strong in
their beliefs and said that this is from divine power, and some went insane
from the drastic changes.
3.
The museum holds pieces of their memories of the Old
World and this also helps them to be grateful for what they have in front of
them. This provides them hope that humanity will return to its glory days and
reminds them of how the world used to be before the Georgian Flu. If I was
building my own “Museum of Civilization”, I would probably be putting
technologies of different kinds that I could find in there and manual books on
how these technologies were built.
4.
I believe it is a wise decision because, without
family, one’s mind will never be at ease and would somehow feel trapped in
their own mind. Finding them gives them hope that one day, the whole group and
family will reunite again. I think I would draw the line from endangering my
family. I don’t think anything is worth endangering my family or city or country
because, at the end of the day, I believe that one would have to face the consequences
that come with that decision.
