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Eileen Guichard English Honors 1 Summer Reading: Alas, Babylon Questions- 1. The main conflict in the novel is ‘man vs. society.’ Randy was constantly put against the highwaymen. Randy really wanted and was trying to create peace and order in Fort Repose post nuclear attacks while the highwaymen was using violence to get everything they needed. 2. There are 2 subplots in this novel. The first one is when they flash to Mark saying goodbye to each other at the Omaha airport. The other subplot is

Think about what it would be like to have no resources left and be on the verge of dying. In Pat Frank’s, Alas Babylon this question is asked over and over. One never truly knows when one is going to have to prepare for the worst, but in this book the main character gets a hint that it is coming before it actually comes. Randy Bragg is a fortunate man, he has never had to struggle for what he wants, causing him to drink and be a carefree person, but this changed with one telegram. Randy is a person

WOW! So much has happened since June. The SV FFA and ag department had a rough start to our year losing three of our students who were on the FFA officer team to other schools. Even with this bump in the road, the four officers that remained visited Mt. Shasta City and had a blast bonding and learning more about each other at their officer retreat in August. Once school started we found three new officers and attended COLC (Chapter Officer Leadership Conference) where the entire team learned about

within library culture in America is set by the American Library Association's Code of Ethics. The ALA Code of Ethics "translates the values of intellectual freedom that define the profession of librarianship into broad principles that may be used by individual members of that profession as well as by others employed in a library as a framework for dealing with situations involving ethical conflicts" (ALA, 2008). It is important for librarians to be unified

Alas, Babylon was written in the early 50s and the segregation and attitudes of those times are specious throughout the novel. 1959, as African-Americans were fighting for civil rights in America and the third wave of the women’s movement was about to begin in the early 1960s. The portrayal of women and minorities is rather dated by its racial stereotypes and sexist assumptions, as most readers will discover. The female characters, included Elizabeth “Lib” McGovern- Randy’s girlfriend and later

lives rapidly dwindled away; humanity had relapsed a thousand years. This was the world of Alas, Babylon, a novel by Pat Frank, based on nuclear devastation in set somewhere in the late 1950s. The story tells of the perseverance of the inhabitants on River Road, but more importantly, Frank used the the book to communicate the ideals, changes, conflicts, and concerns that his society held at that time. Alas, Babylon makes point about many current concerns of 1950s society through its characters, events

particular type of person or thing. An example of a stereotype is “All Mexicans in America are immigrants”. Bragg, Gunn, and the McBrides were all stereotyped in their own way and some more than others. First, Randy Bragg is the protagonist in a book called Alas, Babylon. He is a reserve for the U.S. military and because of his connection to the military the city makes him a leader in this story of a post-apocalyptic city. The first stereotype is already seen because people in this city think he is a good

to think about. Timelines are the backbones of books because of how important they can be to the plot, characters, and setting of a book. The books Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank and Anthem by Ayn Rand have an interesting timeline when put together, and it is because Anthem takes place after Alas,Babylon when comparing the two books. For example, in Alas, Babylon it tells us how an atomic war had started leaving many places demolished except for the small towns that were not contaminated, and most of

“Randy found it almost impossible to lie… lying was the worst crime, the indispensable accomplice of all others, and would always bring the worst punishment. ‘I can forgive anything but a lie’” (Frank 46). Randy, from the novel Alas, Babylon, was taught at a young age that lying is unforgivable in all circumstances and there will never be an exception to a lie. I can personally relate to this because my dad had taught me the same thing. Always as a child the worst punishments came with lies and

One of the main characters in “Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, is a teenage boy named Ben Franklin. Ben is the son of Helen and Mark Bragg, as well as a “child of the atomic age” (Frank 67). Once His father; an officer with the SAC, is presumed as dead, Ben is forced to evolve from a juvenile boy, into a mature an over the course of a terrible war. Throughout the novel, I interpreted Ben as fairly intelligent, and mature, in relation to what was going on. He had known, and done, little seemingly unimportant