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the big development i was waiting for happened, but im starting to think things will just be like this forever--that the narrator is writing after everyone else has died, preserving her humanity by writing, but literally for no one, because who else is there? i wonder if the origin of the bunker will ever be revealed, since the men are gone and im thinking they will never encounter any other people again.
— Mar 10, 2025 05:13PM
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Alyssa Fairgrieve
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wild. much sadder. still wondering where things will go from this point--the books and such. she's getting educated now, which is fun! its interesting to see how their humanity is preserved in so many little ways.
"thinking back, I can't see why it seems so obvious that we had to keep it with us. It was as if we all had a foreboding of what lay in store and were determined to deny it."
pg 77
— Mar 12, 2025 10:38AM
"thinking back, I can't see why it seems so obvious that we had to keep it with us. It was as if we all had a foreboding of what lay in store and were determined to deny it."
pg 77
Alyssa Fairgrieve
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i said in my comment yesterday i didnt find the book as scary as the setting and circumstances really are, but now im getting a little apprehensive about their entire future. the narrator's little clues make it clear what the outcome of all of this will be, so some of the things i speculated will likely happen. but now there is such a nerve wracking feeling of endless possibilities, endless, open ground. 1/2
— Mar 11, 2025 08:43PM
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Idk what this is but I am scared
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😅😅😅😅- [ ] it's funny you say that because as much as the setting and circumstances should be (and are) terrifying it still doesnt feel so abnormal. a quote from the back cover even says: "It is surprising that a book with the psychological detail of a nightmare elicits in the reader feelings of such profound intensity."--Le Monde. the sense of humanity and community is strong and with recent developments it's just natural human living off the land. wholesome, caring, womanly. very different from lord of the flies. which is making me wonder now about how different this story would be if the genders were flipped. i hadnt thought of that before--and granted, the key conditions in the lord of the flies are VERY different, and fueled a lot of upset and turmoil. but still, if all the conditions in this book were kept as they are, i dont think the atmosphere would be the same at all if these characters were men. so, while i expected there to be something about gender to be explored, i wasnt expecting it to be this. but i wonder if the book will explicitly bring this up? im excited to find out!
