Summarized & Analyzed: "Z for Zachariah"

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Robert C. O’Brien through his novel “Z for Zachariah” gave a kind of new dimension to the science fiction writing. Robert C. O’Brien was the pen name that Robert Leslie Conly used in his books as a writer. The present novel “Z for Zachariah” was published posthumously in 1974. It is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel.

The author passed away in 1973. When he died, the book was incomplete, but his wife Sally M. Conly and their daughter Jane Leslie Conly began to work on the novel with the help of the notes that the author had left, and eventually completed the novel in the following year after the author’s death.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Apr 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370480814

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Summarized & Analyzed: Z for Zachariah

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Introduction

About Z for Zachariah

Setting of the Story

Plot Overview

About Major Characters

Ann Burden

John Loomis

Faro

Complete Summary

Literary Elements

Thematic Analysis

Note

Introduction

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About Z for Zachariah

Robert C. O’Brien through his novel Z for Zachariah gave a kind of new dimension to the science fiction writing. Robert C. O’Brien was the pen name that Robert Leslie Conly used in his books as a writer. The present novel Z for Zachariah was published posthumously in 1974. It is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel.

The author passed away in 1973. When he died, the book was incomplete, but his wife Sally M. Conly and their daughter Jane Leslie Conly began to work on the novel with the help of the notes that the author had left, and eventually completed the novel in the following year after the author’s death.

The story is set in the United States of America. It is written in the form of a diary. Sixteen years old Ann Burden is the first-person narrator of the story. Ann happens to have survived a nuclear war and a nerve gas attack. Ann survived by continuing to live in a small valley that happens to have a very confined and self-contained weather system.

Z for Zachariah is the author’s second published novel that had been intended for his adult readers. The first successful novel was A Report from Group 17. It was a science-fiction thriller that was liked by a large number of readers around the world.

Before writing science-fiction novels, the author had already been writing children’s novels. Some of his successful children’s novels are The Silver Crown, Mrs. Frisby, and The Rats of NIMH.

Z for Zachariah was the winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award in the year 1976. It also won the Edgar Award for the Best Mystery Fiction in the young adult novel’s category.

Setting of the Story

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