CHILDREN OF THE DUST by Louise Lawrence Discuss reasons how the novel's ending could be viewed as both optimistic and pessimistic. Must be 600 or more words
Date Submitted: 07/19/2004 01:35:06
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 2 pages (604 words)
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 2 pages (604 words)
This essay about Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence will discuss reasons why the novel's ending could be viewed as both optimistic and pessimistic. Point one; life is sustained approximately forty years after the radioactive fallout in Great Britain. Point two; Simon accepts Laura even if she is a mutant. Point three; the mutants have a decreased quality of life due to the radioactive fallout. Point four; The Author may be suggesting that radioactive …
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…and to cause this mutation. This is a pessimistic outlook because it shows that the mutants are different to all humans which they are physically but not mentally.
Therefore, I suggest that the ending of "Children of the Dust" by Louise Lawrence is pessimistic on the terms that the mutants have a decreased quality of life since they wouldn't be able to live the same lifestyle as a person who lived 50 - 100 years before them.
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