9/19/19 Helen Huang Period 8

9/19/19

Helen Huang  Period 8

Modern Mythology 2020

Blogger #7

Aim: Cover Project Presentations Day 1

Tomorrow’s Night

This title refers to the future and what comes after, a new day. The theory is that a nuclear war happened where the clash of governments with different views created a dangerous situation for the people. Radiation spreads depleting resources and the world ends up covered in ash. The scarcity of the resources lead to higher tensions between many nations. Violence increases and trust/bonds are broken. Survival is put as a higher priority than kindness due to the fact that fear can drive people to abnormal things such kill, eat other humans (even babies), and commit suicide. The boy is a symbol of compassion that goes against the fear shown in the book. On this group’s book cover there is a mushroom cloud to illustrate the darkness covering entire cities. The black background/rain without stars shows the coldness present and the hope not present. To the left a bloody skeleton symbolizing the death and to the right a mother with her baby conveying the continuity of sacrificed morals throughout the book. In the center is an image of an earth that on one side shows it as blue and green, how we see it today, and the other as a red hell like world. I found the cover to be very well thought out and made to accurately depict many aspects/details of the book.

Beginning of the End

Similar to the previous group the theory of what happened is a new world war, WW3, broke out. North Korea started the war and targeted medium to high populations. Yellowstone, Wyoming has a volcano that erupts leaving the world dark and survival hard. A second ice age is predicted due to the temperature drop from the decreased sunlight due to the clouds of ash. This is likely to be true because the father and the son find bunkers full of food and supplies which means that people were expecting/preparing for a war. After WW3, humans have no hope in their future and only thinking of the present. This results in people resorting to cannibalism to survive showing that they gave up. There are extremely limited resources as the book cover shows. It illustrates the world situation before and going into the road. I like how they connected the bunkers to people expecting a third world war.

Brimstone

The theory is that the location of the road is near Rock City Tennessee because the characters come across an advertisement sometime earlier in the novel that states “See Rock City”. There was a supervolcanic eruption that caused death and destruction ton an enormous scale. Based on the location the boy and his father were far enough to have survived the aftermath. The loss of hope along with the death of loved ones caused many to become insane and give up. This group had also given other possibilities such as a meteor strike which I like. The title deals with fire and wrath and the book has a lot of religious symbols.

This project has given us the chance to creatively experiment with the prequel to a mysterious story and was very fun!!!