Blog Journal for Station Eleven

“It was eleven twenty. The supermarket closed in forty minutes. He was imagining

how long it would take to bring the cart up to Frank’s apartment, to unload it, the

time required for explanations and tedious reassurance of sanity before he could

return to the grocery store for more supplies.” (page 18). The reason I chose this quote

is because it kind of relates to the Covid pandemic. I assume this is how people felt

when they were raiding Target for toilet paper. One question that was raised during

this part of the book was, what did the cashier do after this run-in? Did she too go a

little crazy and stock up on supplies? The reason I wonder this is because the cashier

was becoming scared after watching the news and seeing Jeevan freak out. 

“Sixty dollars later Jeevan was alone outside his brother’s apartment door, the carts

lined up down the corridor. Perhaps, he thought, he should have called ahead from

the grocery store. It was one a.m. on a Thursday night, the corridor all closed doors

and silence.” (page 22). The reason I chose this passage is because of how crazy it all

sounds. Imagine waking up to a sibling knocking on your door on the twenty-second

floor at one a.m. and they have seven shopping carts of supplies. To add to that, you

have no clue that all those people are dying. How would you react? I’d probably start

by asking, are you okay? What’s going on? I’m writing this before starting chapter 4 so

it raises the question of, how is the brother going to react to the news about the

epidemic/pandemic?

I totally understand what he meant when realized the “before and after”. Life during

COVID wasn't comparable to before. By now most things are back to normal, but for a

while we had no clue if and when things would go back. If COVID was as bad as the

Georgian Flu most of us wouldn’t be alive today, but if I was, I would most likely miss

being able to interact with new people and being able to go to big events like Wild games. 

After the death of Arthur, people from the show were sitting at the bar at the theatre. While

sitting at the bar they talk about who they’re supposed to inform about his death. During this,

we find that Arthur has had three divorces and has a kid with the second wife. The foreshadowing

in this line shows that the epidemic/pandemic is so bad that they won’t be able to communicate

through phones anymore.