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The Consequences Of Fame In Station Eleven By Emily St John Mandel

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The consequences of fame The affect fame has on a person and other people around them. In the novel Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, we meet the character Arthur Leander, who is a worldwide celebrity, which impacts many people that interact with Arthur such as Miranda, Jeevan and Tyler. Arthur’s power in life comes from his fame, so he always must be famous to keep his power, which hurts those closest to him, always having consequences for those in his life. First and foremost, Throughout the novel Arthur Leander’s fame changes Miranda’s path in life. Arthur first changes Miranda’s path in life when Arthur and Miranda discuss the plan to leave her abusive boyfriend, Pablo, which influences Miranda to leave her abusive relationship. In …show more content…

Jeevan first becomes a paparazzo for Arthur to earn money in life to support himself, however Jeevan dislikes his job as a paparazzo, he believes “work is combat” (103). Many years later after Jeevan quits his job as a paparazzo, he is in Toronto watching a play that Arthur was playing in, during the play Arthur has a heart attack on stage and loses consciousness, Jeevan quickly dashes up on stage and preforms CPR, unfortunately Arthur does not survive. but Jeevan comes to the realization, “Being a paramedic was the right thing to do with his life” (16). Jeevan had been searching for profession for so long, “he’d been a bartender, a paparazzo, and an entertainment journalist, then a paparazzo again and then once again a bartender, and that was just a past dozen years” (16). During the collapse Jeevan is a person people would go to for medical assistance, he told one his patient's spouse that, “I trained as a paramedic, before the flu. I apprenticed to a doctor near here for five years, till he decided to move further south. I’ve picked up what I can”. (271) Jeevan was the closest thing they had to a “doctor” within a one-hundred-mile radius of where he lived in McKinley. Overall, Arthur has an impact on Jeevan’s life decisions which eventually leads him to finding a career path he enjoys and is happy

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