GOLD FAME CITRUS (Part 2)- Nicole Rondeau

QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Who’s van does Luz wake up in?

2. What is one of the items Levi gives Luz to prove he found Ray’s body?

3. Where has Ray actually been this whole time?

4. Who starts the van on fire?

5. Where are Luz and Ray when the flood occurs?

DISSCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. What  do you think about Levi’s conspiracy theory?  Do you think the government would ever implement such a plan just to keep from spending more money?

2. What do you think about Levi’s plan to use redemption instead of guilt?

3. Would you have left Ig ?  Do you think they they actually had any other choice?

Comments on peers posts:

https://envirojpo.blogspot.com/2018/11/wall-e-and-consumerism.html?showComment=1543420294498#c6689304531982051945

https://envirojpo.blogspot.com/2018/11/ecotopia-final.html?showComment=1543422044496#c8660239153053091416

Questions for you all to address: In your presentations and/or final blog posts – my impression is that most of you have selected books that paint a generally-dystopian vision of the future that presume it's too late for humans to reverse the worst impacts of climate change.

Is that true in your case?

Gold Fame Citrus portrayed a very dystopian vision of the future.  It even mentioned how there had been a lot effort put into trying to reverse climate change, but all were unsuccessful.  Such measures, which I mentioned in the midterm report were, cloud seeders, aerosol sprays, etc. 

This book portrayed a pretty bleak future, with Californian’s becoming second-class citizens, states guarding their borders, wars occurring over water, wildlife and plant life rapidly dying off, giant sinkholes scattered over the landscape.

Although with that being said, some characters, like Lonnie and Rita, did take a different view on this “drought of droughts” that was plaguing the southwest US.   Described somewhat as bohemian radicals, Lonnie and Rita saw the drought as a purge – a positive, cleansing event –riding California of those who did not belong – the posers.  Instead of seeing it as a disaster, they saw it as an opportunity.  They believed that it was happening for a reason and that things would work out in the end.

If so, was it deliberate?

I definitely think it was deliberate.  Whether it was just to have an interesting setting for the story to take place in, or if it was supposed to be somewhat of a scare tactic to get people to see how bad things could become.

What I found really interesting was Levi’s solution to the whole situation.  This dystopian setting is what made Levi’s take on things so interesting.  Instead of giving up and ceding that there was nothing that could be done to salvage the situation, Levi believed that all could be made right if they offered people redemption.  Things wouldn’t go back to the way they were before the drought, but if people embraced what they had done, and turned it into a positive, they could learn to live in this new world they had created.

Is that in fact your own view?

I do not think it’s too late for humans to do something.  I don’t think it will ever be too late.  There is always something someone can do to makes things just a tiny bit better.