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Post-Apocalyptic Genre

Post-Apocalyptic Genre. The post-apocalyptic world is an important and common setting. How does it influence the story?. Characteristics of Post-Apocalyptic Genre. a sub-genre of speculative fiction concerned with the end of civilization due to a catastrophic event such as

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Post-Apocalyptic Genre

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  1. Post-Apocalyptic Genre The post-apocalyptic world is an important and common setting. How does it influence the story?

  2. Characteristics of Post-Apocalyptic Genre • a sub-genre of speculative fiction • concerned with the end of civilization due to a catastrophic event such as • nuclear war -pandemic, • impact event -cybernetic revolt, • supernatural phenomena - resource depletion • some other general disaster • set in a world or civilization after such a disaster • focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors • often takes place in a non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain. However, this may not always be true. • genre gained in popularity after World War II, when the possibility of global annihilation by nuclear weapons entered the public consciousness.

  3. Some Post-Apocalyptic Works • Fallout (video game) • The Hunger Games Trilogy (book series) • The Book of Eli (film) • Jericho (t.v. series) • The Walking Dead (t.v. series)

  4. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Viktor Vasnetsov (1887)

  5. Contemporary Zombie Apocalypse

  6. The Hunger Games

  7. Fallout

  8. The Road Cormac McCarthy

  9. Discussion Questions Why are there so many apocalyptic texts, movies, songs, art? Do you have a favorite apocalyptic work of literature or movie or song? What is it? Do you believe in the Apocalypse? Why or Why Not?

  10. Discussion Questions • What are the conflicts you’ve noticed so far? • How does this setting enhance these conflicts? • How does the setting enhance the mood? • How does the conflict enhance the mood? • How has the conflict affected our characters so far? • What are specific quotes that…support the mood? • …support the conflict/s? • …support the setting? • …support how characters are being affected.

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