English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Totalitarianism, Consumerism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1028F/G
• Professor: Gabrielle Ceraldi

Document Summary

Might be a plausible outcome of things that already exist in our world. 187 father recalls a time that they entered a library. He also wonders what to do with the seed packets used only in the future, but sun doesn"t shine and nothing grows. The third person narrator is very closely related to the father since the father believes that there are no cows or future for the seeds, there is no way for the narrator to tell us otherwise. The seed packets are kind of a souvenir of the past. Hope doesn"t necessarily have to correspond to the optimism that we usually associate it with he does not expect to plant the seeds, but he can still hope that he will. 142 when they find the bunker, the father is sorting through things and he found gold. The people that hid the gold probably assumed that it would hold monetary value while paper cash wouldn"t.