In Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel sets a very elegiac and suspenseful tone to the story. As the story progresses, the readers begins to witness how each characters lives are intersected and/or connected in multiple ways. It is the “domino effect” or in other words cause and effect; as one person's actions can affect and/or change future events or a person’s life. The readers began to see this, when Arthur dies from a heart attack on stage. Soon enough we see how characters such as Miranda, Kristen, Tyler, and Elizabeth are all connected.
Miranda Carroll is one out of the three of Arthur’s wives. She is the infamous arthur of the comics, Dr. Eleven. The audience witness how the comics become extremely significant to Kristen and Tyler throughout the story. On page 320, Arthur says, “She gave two copies of each, so I sent the other set to my son”. This shows how Arthur not only gave a comic to Tyler, but to Kristen as well. Throughout the story, we witness the post-collapse civilization, where almost everything is destroyed. Kristen states, “Survival is insufficient” (pg. 58). This shows how Kristen
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John Mandel shows the audience on how the post-collapse impacts every character. Mandel shows this by switching up the story, by going back into the past and the present, showing the audience the differences. As the story progresses, the audience begins to see how each character is connected to one another. As one character’s action affects another person’s life, the audience sees the bind of fate. We see this with Miranda, the author of Dr. Eleven, how her comics affect Tyler’s and Kirsten lives. Therefore leads to Kirsten having an obsession with Arthur and the comics, only to go search for more the comics to only come face to face with the Prophet. As the audience continues reading, we witness how Tyler is transformed into the Prophet, and how each action of his mother Elizabeth and Arthur taught him his own