Changing Our Generation Is Essential In Growing Our Society
As a Canadian, I sometimes feel like we don't have our own identity we are just a copycat, a cleaner version of Americans. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel made me realise we do have our own identity, we are just missing the bigger picture. Her novel awakened me from my ignorance as a teenager girl, she showed me in her literary talent how much we are taking stuff for granted. Furthermore, Emily St John Mandel stole a famous quotes that really resonated with me that “Survival is insufficient. ” In various ways you start to think about how surviving isn't enough to bring true happiness. Life is such a precious thing we shouldn't be taking for granted or how it will vanish in a split second. As a Canadians, all i see in our generations is people becoming more disconnected with each other because of the growing technology that is evolving every day. Emily St. John Mandel had a mission she wanted so desperately the readers to understand how anything that we are thinking right now is important, in reality it isn't. All of our fears and regret are meaningless, if in another abstract reality it never existed. For example are phones we hold so dearly, if we never invented them we would still be ok and not have the fear of ever losing are phones if we never had them in the first place. Emily St. John paints a picture for the readers, how the future would foothold with a different circumstance of reality.
We should really start to appreciate what we have, use it in a better way than just a well structure community, use the technology that is helping us disconnect with each other, used as a means to reconnect with others. While we live a in a generation that is very well functional in society, there is still many ways in which it is deficient. Are generation is deprived of communicating with each other, there is a lack of balancing workload and family time, and people not discovering their true ambition. The mainstream issues that every millennial faces are our fixation of are phones. As suggested by Veronika Konok, of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, a cell phone has the potential to be a “compensatory attachment” object. Although phones are often castigated for their addictive potential, Konok and her collaborators cite evidence that supports the idea that “healthy, well-functioning adults also report significant emotional attachment to special objects”. Hence, my point is our generation is becoming saturated with sickness revolving technology.
The only way to cure it is to show how we are over using it for the worst. Emily St. John Mandel created a hypothetical of what if any technology, train or plain never existed. The characters in the book where perplexed and frustrated of their lack of means, said by the narrator “Because we are always looking for the former world, before all the traces of the former world are gone. ” that enforced the readers to recognize how ampty are world really is when you let go of something special. Next, the horror we would face without technology should teach us how we should insure its safety in the near future. Emily St. John Mandel spoke to me, she shared to me the reality i would always try to avoid, absence of missing out. Actively trying to join social media so i would always stay close to my friends but in actuality destroying my chances of introducing myself in new surroundings, seeing the outdoor and meeting new friends or reconnecting with my friends in real life. I could finally understand the irony i would face with myself every day. In quote said beautifully “No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars. ” She expressed wonderfully how i truly felt if i didn't have my social media and how that would destroy me which is actually sad if you think about it Station Eleven talked about darks, scary topics that we actually fear today loneliness. This story is very believable, and it's not farfetched at all.
The book really woke me when it talked about how humans are social creatures that need people to survive. “She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees. ” For Instance, after the flu epidemic where no one really knew the cure and everyone started dying extremely quickly. The characters came to realisation that the people around them they have chosen to ignore because of technology or their work as actors aren't gonna be there anymore. Emily St. John Mandeline taught me many lessons about how we tend to realise too late when something is cherishable. Backing up my idea is there is emerging evidence that evolutionary processes have favored the development of complex social behaviors in humans, along with the brain architecture that supports them. Thus, are brain is programmed in way that forces us human to naturally be social. Specifically, in the book they start to recognize how society is destroying itself because now there isn't enough people around them to support the society and the technology. Once the crowd kept getting smaller the Clark in quote said “But sometimes the small circle of people and firelight seemed only to accentuate the emptiness of the continent, the loneliness of it, a candle flickering in vast darkness”, explaining how it was a love and hate situation since he wanted to converse with them so he wouldn't feel lonely but after he would remember how empty and small the group was.
Emily St. John created this fictional book that was exaggerated from the Georgia flu but conquered major problems we are facing. One character Miranda from the book refreshed us on how he chose to do theatre for himself and truly do it without a purpose in mind, just for his own enjoyment. In quoted dialogue “What’s the point of doing all that work”, Tesch asks, “if no one sees it?” “It makes me happy. It’s peaceful, spending hours working on it. It doesn’t really matter to me if anyone else sees it. ” Next, Miranda finds something that she truly likes and explores it going further from the chapters trying to fix her emptiness while everyone around her tries forget what they once had in quote “What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost. ” Caused by the fact of their grief and sorrow they had to face while seeing so many people dying, children not having the chance to fulfill their lives from the incident that had occurred. Even in recent studies it shows hidden memories that can’t be consciously accessed may protect the individual from the emotional pain of recalling the event. But eventually those suppressed memories can cause debilitating psychological problems, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or dissociative disorders. Thus, in order to truly move on from a tragedy would be to face it and accept it. Maybe the author was trying to pretay a context in the novel, showing if they had tried to move forward they wouldn't be pitying themselves that much and change to be more like the protagonist.
To conclude, literature should not be a force that should be messed with it has the power to change a population, to create a new beginning, change someone like me to have a different mindset in thing. Literature is a powerful tool that will help in changing generation to generation. But also, help humanity connect again like once before, master the art of balance and accepting new ambition. Finally, are we as society gonna move forward from this powerful message Emily St john Mandeline presented us as the future new generation?
