20. The "loss of innocence is simply one more method for saying "The Fall". The creator says each story has a "fall". …show more content…
Both summer reading books incorporate Biblical elements by having things that involve temptation and the apocalypse. Mae is tempted with the positon at the Circle and from that temptation leads her to turn her back on many people. Mercer is trying to get Mae to understand how much she changed, “‘it’s eliminated my abilities to just talk to you … I can’t send you emails, because you immediately forward them to someone else’ ” (Eggers 146). Her judgment is clouded by the Circle and everyone in it. She has forgotten everything about the past and is only trying to work to better herself in the corporation. Hortense first believed that the apocalypse would occur on January 1, 1925 yet, “she had been disappointed! But the wounds of 1925 had healed, and [she] was once again ready to be convinced that apocalypse, just as the right holy Mr. Rangeford had explained was around the corner…1975 looked like the last chance” (Smith 46).
22. The literary canon is an expert list of works that everybody imagines doesn't exist however that we all know is of some importance in some critical way. This list of works and/or incredible authors is exceptionally fluid and distinctive to diverse individuals and