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   3. In what ways is the city of the dead reassuringly like our own cities? How do people feel about being there?

   Posted 7 months ago by Catwoman #

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   Posted 7 months ago by Catwoman #

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   It has a feeling of neighborliness, helping people, as well as avoiding some of them! I got the feeling people just accepted that they were dead and they now occupied this city. I wondered why no one questioned it much. Perhaps "the blinks" got so common on Earth people knew sooner or later they would be dying.

   Posted 7 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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   The City has to get news by waiting for someone to get there from Earth. That is different than the bombardment we can get by turning on anything electronic. The thing that is disturbing is that with so many dying in reality the number disappearing from the city is increasing. That would worry me because you don't know what the next phase is--fear of the unknown. Seems fitting that Laura seems to know so many people, so that they are still in The City.

   Posted 7 months ago by SoxsMom #

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   Speaking of Laura, she grew in size too didn't she? Your mention of the penguins reminded me of it. What do you think the deal was with the marbles? People she knows?

   Posted 7 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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   I felt that although they knew that they were dead, and could even tell about how they died, life was pretty much the same in The City as it had been for them when they were alive. Well, in that they went to work, went to restaurants, etc. But they were keenly aware that any friends and relatives who were with them had to also be dead. I don't think that they ever realized what it meant when one of them disappeared, though. And I thought that it was so interesting that the two people who had been with Laura, and who died together, were constantly running into each other in The City.

   Posted 7 months ago by WillowandWindismom #

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   .... I thought of it like a "transition" place.... once one died, they went to a place, that had much of the same feel and awareness of "real life".... but as it slowly dimished, so did their memories of their "real life".....

   Posted 7 months ago by AV #

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   I thought it was an interesting concept. As though it would be too much of a transition to go straight to...where is next? So there is this place that is comfortingly familiar to get one used to the fact that they are dead. But what next? Heaven? Oblivion?

   Posted 7 months ago by Catwoman #

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   I was sort of rooting for the Rainbow Bridge...

   Posted 7 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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    That was my question and I guess that I felt a little unsettled at the ending not knowing where they had gone. And why did whole chunks of The City disappear at once? Weren't the ones who were left curious about where the people had gone? But gone to where and to what? The never ending question, isn't it?

    Posted 7 months ago by WillowandWindismom #

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    It makes one think about their own beliefs in death. I believe in Heaven, and that is where most go upon death. I wonder why the need to have an inbetween. I have the book that he used at the very beginning of this novel--The Lies My Teacher Told Me. I thought the piece he used was interesting.

    Posted 7 months ago by SoxsMom #

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    Joan, that is what i was thinking...kind of like our own Rainbow Bridge, just waiting for our loved ones to join us.

    Posted 7 months ago by Alicia #

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    I was a bit frustrated by the lack of questioning. Again, perhaps it had something to do with "the blinks" and its fast-moving pace.

    Posted 7 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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    People lived and played just like they do in our cities. They seemed to accept being there perhaps because it was reassuringly like the cities they knew before they died.

    Posted 7 months ago by Cat talk rules #

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