On: Station Eleven
A group of performers traversing the remnants of post-apocalyptic North America.
What is the Travelling Symphony?
A place of supposed safety for 'children'.
What is Hailsham?
C1. V4. V22. E2.
"Someone would say something noble and invigorating about the power of art and we would all find it easier to sleep that night."
What are adjectives?
“The object of Art is to give life a shape”
Who is William Shakespeare?
"I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget sweetness of life on Earth."
What are the Dr Eleven comic books?
Miss Lucy, Miss Emily, and Miss Geraldine.
What are Guardians?
Mr Spence's favourite colour.
What is orange?
"Complete", not die. "Donate", not harvest. "Recovery centres", not hospitals.
What are euphemisms?
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Contains a snowglobe, an iPhone, a credit card, and other "artifacts".
What is the Museum of Civilisation?
The philosophical term that prioritises the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
27
What is the number of books Mr Spence has read this year? (Double score: What is one of them?)
Rain pelts a dying yellow flower as Miss Lucy tells the clones the truth.
What is pathetic fallacy? OR What is mise-en-scene?
“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some”
Who is Margaret Atwood? (Bonus score: The Handmaid's Tale)
"If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there's nothing that you cannot justify. There's nothing you can't survive, because there's nothing that you will not do."
Who is The Prophet (Tyler)?
Like the clones, it can't escape it's fate.
What is the decaying, stranded boat?
The year Mr Spence started teaching at HVHS.
What is 2020?
Scanners. Light. "Survival is insufficient".
What are motifs?
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted”
Who is Aldous Huxley? (Bonus score: Brave New World)
The literary form of Station Eleven, signified by fragmented sentences, nonlinear narration, and ambiguity.
What is post-modernism?
We see it twice: Tommy's donation.
What are parallel scenes? OR What is a cyclical narrative?
Approximately 53
What is the number of different texts Mr Spence has taught over the years? (Bonus score: name all six we have studied this year)
"Consider the snowglobe..." Clark imagines the story behind the snowglobe's creation for several lines.
What is a stream of consciousness?
“It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed”
Who is P. D. James? (Bonus score: Children of Men)