Friday, July 12, 2013
A Question
I just had this weird question pop into my head. Are there no plots in Apocalypse stories? Is the whole purpose to just see who can survive and how they do it? Even in Quest stories there's no underlying plot except to get from point A to point B and win the prize right? Or am I looking at this all wrong? Well, that's more than one question, but I tend to over think things :)
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Seems to me there is usually some kind of plot, but it's often more like a subplot than a main plot. The purpose is survival for the most part, at least in the initial volume. If it's a series that changes.
Yes, I can see where a series would need to have plots to carry it forward. After the initial devastation I would assume that people would try to set up communities, which would bring in a conflict between groups of people. In "The Road" there was just the basic story with father and son trying to stay alive.
Maybe I'm just used to crime stories where there's a motive beyond just trying to stay alive.
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake series is thick with plot.
I'll have to check that out, Dusty. I've not read a lot of Atwood's work.
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