Summarized & Analyzed: "Station Eleven"

By Student World

The novel opens with the scene from a production of King Lear at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. Arthur Leander is playing the role of King Lear. While performing, he has a heart stroke.

Jeevan, who has some medical training, is also watching the production of the play. Seeing that Arthur Leander is suffering, he tries to resuscitate Arthur, but he fails. He turns and tries to comfort Kirsten, one of the child actors in that production.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jun 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370980680

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Introduction

About Station Eleven

Plot Overview

About Major Characters

Complete Summary

Critical Analysis

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Introduction

Student World is a group of college lecturers and professors. We understand how high school and college students feel when they are given to read literature, especially classics. They generally get lost in the long and complex sentences, a parade of characters, and shifting narratives, thus making it difficult for them to make head from tail.

Our guide books are written in very simple and clear language, without exaggerating the facts. We do not include our opinions and never become too subjective while analyzing the works of literature.

We try to make our books as easy as possible for students to read them and learn from them so that when they read the original texts of the classics or other works of literature, they are prepared and they know what the work is about.

In this book we have included introduction to the book, plot overview, about major characters, complete summary, and critical analysis.

Although we know that some students do not want to read the original text because they prepare only to pass their exams or tests, yet we insist that they read the original text of Station Eleven so that they can understand the subtle aspects of the narrative which can't be presented in this treatise.

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About Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven rose to prominence as a writer after the publication of this novel in 2014. It was the author’s fourth published novel.

The author’s earlier novels were generally categorized as crime fiction, but this novel is a science fiction. The story is set in the Great Lakes region.

The time period is after a fictional swine flu pandemic that devastated the world. This swine flu, known as Georgia Flu, eradicated most of the population.

Most of the reviews were literary critics were highly positive. Most critics unanimously admired the understated nature of the author’s writing. It was equally admired by her readers and academicians.

The book was the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. The book found its place on several reading lists towards the end of the year of its publication and it was regarded as one of the best novels of 2014.

Several publication houses have labelled Station Eleven as a science fiction, but the author herself does not believe that it