Kirsten’s group is sitting on several caravans that are pulled by horses, which means her group has to find a large amount of food to feed both the group members and the horses. However, Mandel never reveals to her readers that how this group can find food sources to support their trip. It is always a mystery. She definitely needs more details to convince readers that the characters in her book are tenacious survivors who pay concentrated efforts to survive. Although Station Eleven is fictional, but it still has to follow the nature’s basic rules. Yet without clarifying the exertions that the groups have made for survival, Mandel makes her post-apocalypse world too ideal.
Another problem with artists is that their skills and behaviors are not matched with survival. In Mandel’s story, one of the caravans uses a …show more content…
Mandel shows her kindness by providing a pure, clean world to entertain her readers, yet I believe she also knows what I am suggesting in this article. She knows there would be endless horror after the world ends. She knows a group of artists wouldn’t make it in the apocalypse. She knows a girl like Kirsten would be changed drastically after seeing countless terrible deaths. She only wants to give hope to readers, to encourage them that there is always hope in the world, but I can’t accept her way. Eventually, hope is a realistic term. It is not about enjoying drama plays or listening to music. It is about feeling your heart beats and breathing as much fresh air as you