Here's a clip from one of my favorite post-apocalyptic films, George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978):
As you continue to read the novel, what do you imagine will happen? What have you been surprised by? What questions do you have?
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 102 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Blindness and the End of the World
As you read Blindness, I'd like you to make connections to other post-apocalyptic films, TV shows, novels, comic books, myths, video games etc. What is your favorite posts-apocalyptic story? Or, if you've never seen one or never seen one you liked, why not? Why do you thinks these stories have been with us for thousands of years? What do they speak to? (Feel free to use the link/image/video buttons above to link to internet images and/or video.)
Here's a clip from one of my favorite post-apocalyptic films, George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978):
As you continue to read the novel, what do you imagine will happen? What have you been surprised by? What questions do you have?
Here's a clip from one of my favorite post-apocalyptic films, George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978):
As you continue to read the novel, what do you imagine will happen? What have you been surprised by? What questions do you have?
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My favorite post-apocalyptic book is Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. The book is about a world after nuclear war where people live on giant mobile cities. Due to food and fuel shortage, bigger cities prey on smaller cities. In the book, London is one of the most powerful mobile cities, and people are segregated by social classes. There is new kind of religion there, historians are collecting ancient objects like CD, Computers, USB, etc. and display them in museums. As London continues to travel to hunt down small cities, a teenage accidentally fell out of trash pot to wasted land, then he met a mysterious girl who hated London and its people. As their adventure goes on, a lot of interesting things happen on the way. Of all other post-apocalyptic stories, this book is full of twists and turns in a pleasant way.
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