MaddAddam Literary Elements

MaddAddam Literary Elements

Genre

Speculative fiction

Setting and Context

A near-future post-apocalyptic world

Narrator and Point of View

Zeb and Toby, in the first-person

Tone and Mood

The tone is unsettling; the mood is mysterious.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Ren is the protagonist; Jimmy is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the novel occurs when Toby helps Ren to rescue Amanda from the criminals that are trying to kidnap her, as she also survived the catastrophe.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when the Crakers help them to rebuild all the wiped out civilization on the planet through a new camp.

Foreshadowing

The love between Zeb and Toby is foreshadowed by the fact that they spend so much time together.

Understatement

The role of combatting loneliness is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to what our society could look like if a biological wipeout took place.

Imagery

The imagery of the barren, destroyed land is present in the novel.

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

There is a parallel between what Zeb finds in the accounts of his father and why he decides to escape.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The camp is a metonym for the reconstruction of society.

Personification

N/A

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