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John Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) is dystopian cli-fi (climate science fiction) novel set in a near-future in which severe weather events and rising sea levels destroyed all the shores in the world and created a refugee crisis in countries of the Global South. The United Kingdom’s response is the ethically dubious decision to build a Wall ...
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Camp Green Lake is described. It is no longer a lake because over a hundred years ago the lake dried up and the people who lived around it moved away. Now the lake is a dry and barren land where the temperature is usually about ninety- five degrees. The only place where there is shade is between two trees where there is a hammock. The hammock belon...
Boys who have committed crimes are sent to Camp Green Lake. The boys are supposed to dig holes at the camp in the hopes that they will build character and abide by the law. Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist, thinks that Camp Green Lake will be like a summer camp. He has never been to summer camp because his family is poor, so when he is tried for a ...
Stanley rides to Camp Green Lake on a bus with the bus driver and a guard with a gun. He carries a backpack with a toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery that he plans to use to write to his mother. Stanley pretends that he is going to a camp like the ones rich children go to. Stanley hopes that he will make friends at Camp Green Lake. He ...
The first three chapters set the scene of Camp Green Lake as a menacing place. Even before Stanley arrives at the camp it is clear that life will be hard for him there. The threats at Camp Green Lake are twofold; they come from humans and nature. Humans such as the Warden and the guard on the bus who has a gun are a clear symbol of harsh authority....
Summary, themes, line-by-line analysis, poetic devices, form, meter, rhyme scheme, and more. Literary Terms Full definitions of each term with color-coded examples, followed by additional resources.
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary. Joseph Kavanagh begins his first tour with the Defenders, the border patrol force that kills Others (climate refugees) to keep them from coming over the Wall. The Wall is a massive physical structure that the United Kingdom built when climate change led to catastrophic sea-level rises and severe weather in countries ...
Introduction. "The Wall" is an eponymous short story from Jean-Paul Sartre's book, published in 1939. Sartre was a prominent French philosopher, activist, and writer whose works explored ...
Part 1, Chapters 7-12 Analysis. Wall uses these chapters to show that the cost of building and defending the Wall is alienation on all levels of society. Wall contrasts inland life and life on the Wall to represent this alienation. Joseph is alienated from his parents because they are part of the generation that allowed climate change to happen.
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The first chapter of John Lanchester’s novel The Wall begins with Joseph Kavanagh starting his two-year military service as a Defender on the Wall. After a period of six-weeks’ training, he arrives at the Wall during the night, where he meets the Captain and the Sergeant. The Captain tells him to do everything he is told without questioning it.
