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Station Eleven class notes
 * Post-pandemic world
 * Georgia flu just sets up the rest of the story
 * How would we live if we started over?
 * What choices would individuals/groups make?
 * What would you have to work with that you wouldn’t get to choose?
 * Ch. 1 sets up people we follow
 * but they don’t all know each other
 * Arthur Leander connects everyone
 * Kirsten – child actor, then Traveling Symphony
 * Station Eleven comics
 * drawn & written by Miranda
 * Arthur’s 1st wife
 * given to Arthur
 * he gave them to
 * Kirsten
 * his son Tyler
 * comic deals with big change
 * flashbacks in the novel show life’s big changes
 * glass paperweight
 * Clark gave it to Arthur
 * Miranda takes it, gives it back
 * then Arthur gives it to Tanya, the child actor’s wrangler he’s having an affair with
 * Tanya gives it to Kirsten night of Arthur’s death
 * New Versions of Society:
 * different versions of post-apocalyptic life
 * Traveling Symphony:
 * pretty democratic – people have options
 * work together
 * St. Deborah by the Water – religious cult
 * led by the Prophet – a tyrant
 * he wants multiple young wives
 * “Everything happens for a reason.”
 * justifies whatever happens
 * tries to explain the pandemic
 * the Prophet is charismatic
 * convincing and charming
 * people follow him willingly
 * especially those who want answers
 * young girl stows away with the Symphony
 * she doesn’t want to be with the Prophet
 * graveyard includes graves for people who left the community – didn’t die
 * New Petroskey - town with library and a printing press – publishes newspaper
 * Kirsten is interviewed
 * won’t explain her knife tattoos
 * shows she’s killed two people
 * McKinley, Virginia
 * Jeevan’s town – he’s a medic
 * saves a woman shot by the Prophet
 * Severn City Airport
 * people whose planes were sent there from everywhere
 * people hunt, melt snow for water, find what’s left behind, eventually farm
 * planes sit abandoned, some are used
 * Air Gradia flight at a distant runway
 * quarantined for the flu
 * no one ever got off