25 May WHY DOES JACK GAIN AN “ENDLESS WELL-BEING” FROM HIS SHOPPING SPREE AT THE MALL?
Part 2. Pick one of questions below and then answer it.
Question 1: “Tibetans try to see death for what it is. It is the end of attachment to things. This simple truth is hard to fathom. But once we stop denying death, we can proceed calmly to die and then go on to experience uterine rebirth or Judeo-Christain afterlife or out –of-body experience or a trip on a UFO. . . Here we don’t die, we shop. . .Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens. . . In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air.” (38)
Why does it show about us that, according to Murray, we don’t die, but rather we shop? What is the contrast Murray is drawing between the large clean supermarkets of the suburbs and the steamy delicatessens of the city, and how does this relate to dying?
Question 2: What do you think of Murray’s preference for generic labels? Is this kind of packaging, “IRREGULAR PEANUTS” on a white wrapper, a kind of advertisement in itself? (18)
Question 3: Why might it be unnerving to be approaching an age which loses its consumer identity? (50)
Question 4. What might Babette’s forgetfulness represent? (52)
Question 5: After the death of his mother, what solace did the German teacher Howard Dunlop find in learning meteorology? (55). Why was this appealing to other people—“factory workers, housewives, merchants, members of the police and the fire” (56) who took classes in meteorology?
Question 6: How might it be significant that the Treadwell’s were lost in the mall? (59)
Question 7: Why do we become obsessed with “the incessant bombardment of
information” of natural disasters around the world (66)?
Question 8: Why does Jack gain an “endless well-being” from his shopping spree at the mall? (83-84)
Question 9: Why do the people on the plane that nearly crashed gathered to hear the man’s story about their experience with no additions or clarifications of their own? (92)
Section II: The Airborne Toxic Event (108)
Question 10: How does the family react to the alert about the chemical cloud? What does this say about them? Why does Heinrich become uncharacteristically animated in talking about the disaster? Why are Jack and Babette so convinced “nothing is going to happen” (114)?
Question 11: How do the authorities appear to handle the chemical disaster? What is the source of the chemical? Why does the description of the cloud change from a “feathery plume” (111) to a “black billowing cloud” (113) to an “airborne toxic event” (117)?
Question 12:What may be the significance of deja-vu as one of the symptoms? (116)
Question 13. On page 126, considering the symptoms the children have of Nyodene
exposure, Jack wonders, “which was worse, the real condition or the self-created one, and did it matter?”Which do you think is worse and why?
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