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Alas, Babylon
After "The Day," as the nuclear attack becomes known in Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, the community of Fort Repose rally around Randy, an unlikely leader in view of his former relaxed, almost...
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If you mean in the book "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank, it is the way that Mark and Randy would communicate that there was going to be a Nuclear attack as Mark was not allowed to officially tell...
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This semantic device [The Day] was not entirely original. Several generations of Southerners had referred to before and after "The War" without being required to explain what war" (123). The...
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"Alas, Babylon" is the secret message that Mark gives Randy to warn him of the impending nuclear attack: "I won't call you up and say, 'Hey, Randy, the Russians are about to attack us.' Phones...
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Malachai and the Henry family become invaluable allies of Randy and the Bragg family from the very beginning. The social and economic differences mostly derive from the fact that the Henry family...
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In chapter eleven of Alas, Babylon, Randy readies Pete's grocery truck for the ambush to catch and kill the highwaymen who had been preying on travelers in Fort Repose. At the last minute,...
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At the beginning of the novel Alas, Babylon, Randy Bragg uses his binoculars to look for a Carolina parakeet. He mistakes Florence Wechek's African lovebird, Anthony, for one, which is why...
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The tenacity of the human spirit is a major theme presented by Pat Frank in Alas, Babylon. The novel reveals the pioneer spirit of Fort Repose, a small town in Florida after atomic warfare...
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In Chapter One of Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank uses a Biblical phrase imbued with symbolic meaning to foreshadow the realized threat of nuclear war. Randy Bragg and his brother Mark, who now works...
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Randy Bragg One of Randy Bragg's main character traits is his high moral code and belief in law and order. The bombing forces him to look harder at his moral code: “Yesterday, he would have...
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Randy Bragg is similar to Ralph inLord of the Flies by William Golding. Both novels feature a marked departure from the constructions of civilization, both novels also feature a moral character...
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At the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Mark Bragg, an officer in the Air Force, warns etc
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I think there are plenty to choose from in this brilliant dystopian novel. However, one of the biggest I would say comes in Chapter Nine, when Helen, clearly struggling with the grief of losing her...
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Chapter Ten brings grim news to the Bragg family home. Dan Gunn has discovered two terrible issues facing Fort Repose: 1) a case of typhoid fever at the Sunsbury family, and 2)highwaymen preying...
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Along with the ancestral past shared by Randy Bragg and the house ("shared" metaphorically by the house), they also share a present and a future, and there is a dual aspect to the present and...
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Consider how Bubba Offenhaus is presented at the beginning of Chapter Nine. Although he is supposedly Director of Civil Defense, the book makes it clear that it is Randy who is running around...
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This section of the novel appears in Chapter Four, and of course narrates the trigger that initiates the nuclear holocaust that leaves Randy and the people with him in such dire straits. If we look...
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We must remember that to our mind, coming from the 21st century, the majority of the scenario that Mark unveils to his brother in the second chapter of this excellent novel is going to sound very...
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Let us remind ourselves that foreshadowing is when the author plants hints in earlier chapters about what is to come later on in the novel. You might want to consider the description of Randy's car...
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It shows that Randy is lonely. It aslo shows that he is lazy, because he keeps everything close by him. He lives in a big house but only uses the second floor.
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In Alas, Babylon, Randy Bragg has a very close working relationship with his neighbors, the Henry family. They live on the old, renovated slave quarters at the edge of his property. Missou comes...
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The answer to this question is actually given to us in the second chapter of this excellent novel, when Alice Cooksey is told of the contents of the telegram that Randy receives by Florence Wecheck...
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The story is dated in that the Soviet Union was considered to be the enemy that would launch a nuclear strike. There is no Soviet Union any longer. Nuclear worries are based around Iran and North...
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In the first chapter, the main character in the story, Randy Bragg, talks about how he once ran for the State Legislature and lost badly. At that time, in the mid-1950s in which the book is set,...
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In chapter five, Randy slaps Jennings, the manager of the Riverside Inn in Fort Repose, where Dan Gunn kept a room. Randy goes there to find Dan on the day of the blast because he wants the...
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Through flashbacks and conversations about previous incidents and talks with Mark, it becomes clear that Mark felt very strongly that the U.S. was not prepared for the results of a nuclear...
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There are many symbols in the novel, and I think they are all essential. For instance, Randy's binoculars in the beginning of the novel represent his carefree life. He lazes around and uses these...
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The answer to this question can be found in the first chapter of this excellent dystopian clasic, where Randy remembers the conversation he had with his brother, Mark, and the code signal they...
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I imagine that the connection exists in the understanding of what it means to be an child of the Atomic Age. Franklin was certainly a child of the Enlightenment, and many in his time began to...
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I live very close to a very strategic transportation hub, so it is highly unlikely that I would survive a large scale nuclear attack on the United States. In the event that I knew the US was under...
