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A healing scab -  The natural world is healing after what it had endured in the hands of humans (its creatures modified, now loose in the wild), and will eventually recover. However, even though most of the damage is gone and nature is coming back, there are still traces from the past that will remain (the wolvogs, pigoons, Crakers etc.), much like a scar.

"Even in Snowman's boyhood there were luminescent green rabbits, though they weren't this big and they hadn't yet slipped their cages and bred with the wild population, and become a nuisance."

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White:
The colour white can be associated with normality and the 'unexciting' reality of life before the event. I believe this is why Crake and Jimmy took to the internet for interesting things.

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Green:
The prominence of the colour green throughout the text represents the strength and power of nature as even after the plague, plant life, trees, etc still remain whereas humans are gone

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Mossy Green:
Mossy green represents the regrowth of nature on earth and how nature is spreading over everything.

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A tattoo - Something unnatural (the ink) is injected into a natural system (the body) and remains there permanently. In Oryx and Crake, the world, too, is over abundantly seeded with unnatural elements. What follows is regret and the overwhelming and quite frightening realisation that nothing can be done to go back. Similarly, in Oryx and Crake, a world is permanently ruined and there's no going back.

"What could have been done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of the events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much."

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a stain
Even though nature seems to have regained control of most things, there are still a lot of, traces from the past society and its not something that can be completely rid of. Stains are usually not a positive thing, as is this human trace left behind.

" Opening up their sack, the children chorus, “Oh Snowman, what have we found?” They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean. A plastic BlyssPluss container, empty; a ChickieNobs Bucket O’Nubbins, ditto. "

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AN EMPTY BUCKET
An empty bucket is used by Snowman to help explain the state of the world to the Crakers.
A bucket is a modern object associated with people; children play with them on beaches and adults use them for housework.
The bucket is empty and faded as it no longer has a use in this new world - no more houses for housework and no more family outings or children to play with it.
It was found abandoned - despite the absence of humans in this new world they still have an impact on the environment.
EVIDENCE
Pg. 119: "'And so Crake took the chaos, and he poured it away.' Snowman demonstrates, sloshing the water off to the side, then turns the pail upside down. 'There. Empty. And this is how Crake did the Great Rearrangement and made the Great Emptiness.'"
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The symbol that I chose is a hole. I chose this symbol as the artificial advancements and manipulation has lead to an irreversable change in nature like that of a hoel that one cannot get out of. It is also representative of how the once heavily structured capitalist society had crumbled and collapsed like that of a sinkhole. This strucutre can include things like that of time, capitalism, amterialistic ideals, and even the collapse of the natural biological systems.
"zero hour. It causes a jolt in of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is"

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Velcro is an example of biomimicry - humans learnt from or mimic nature for their own use.

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Snowman's Broken Watch - I chose the broken watch because it is constantly stuck on zero hour: it symbolizes the world that he lives in has no need for proper measures of time. It also shows the fact that even in the new, overgrown world, traces of the past still remain.

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Trophy - I chose a trophy because everything before was extremely competitive, from the different compounds competing against each other (in order to be the most technologically advanced), to students competing against each other in order to get into the best universities. Before, everyone was competing against some thing or another to achieve the best outcome for themselves.

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I chose a rusted lock, because you think it is protecting you, but it is practically useless and easily broken. This shows the false sense of security in the compounds before Crake's act of bio terrorism.

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Moss: Moss represents how nature is taking over earth, nature is spreading everywhere and what came before the new nature is almost unknown.

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FLUORESCENT GREEN
Green is associated with nature and growth. The world after 'the event' is beginning to be taken over by natural growth.
Fluorescence suggests an aspect of artificiality. Although plant growth is taking over the structures built by humans, many of the natural organisms have been killed off by humans or by genetically modified organisms.
EVIDENCE:
Pg. 109-110: "Across the clearing to the south comes a rabbit, hopping, listening, pausing to nibble at the grass with its gigantic teeth. It glows in the dusk, a greenish glow filched from the iridicytes of a deep-sea jellyfish in some long-ago experiment. In the half-light the rabbit looks translucent, like a piece of Turkish delight; as if you could suck off its fur like sugar. Even in Snowman's boyhood there were luminescent green rabbits, though they weren't this big and they hadn't yet slipped their cages and bred with the wild population, and become a nuisance."

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Trophy - I chose this trophy because everything before the event was very competitive, from the compounds competing against each other (to be the most advanced in genetic engineering), to students (such as Jimmy and Crake) competing to get into the best universities. In a sense, they all want to be the best in order to get the best outcome for themselves.

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Footprint:
Despite nature taking back over the land, the presence of humans on it has left an impact or 'footprint' on the setting which is irreversible. This includes the genetically modified species, damage to the environment and building ruins which have all altered nature. Hence, the footprint or legacy of the humans existence will not be

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Snow green- Snow green represents nature creeping back into the environment after Crake

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Parasitic Fungus - After the event, although everything has returned back to nature, there is now many genetically modified animals which dominate the ecosystem. These animals are like parasitic fungus leeching resources which weren't supposed to be part of the system.

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I chose for the symbol to be a poisonous plant because of the destructive and dangerous nature of plants and animals featured in Oryx and Crake and how they can slowly destroy man made things and over take humanity.

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In the well known game "Minecraft", this symbol is clicked on in order to begin a game on single player mode. This symbol relates to the setting as Snowman is living alone in this world. The game "Minecraft" was chosen as it puts the player (Snowman) in a world with various structures such as trees, mountains, etc. while also having abandoned/ruined structures such as the strongholds and the underwater ruins (which can be considered to be similar to the abandoned compounds). Despite him having the Crakers to talk to, some of them are known to have behaviours similar to NPCs (Non-Player Characters) as in page 9, it is stated that the young Crakers ask Snowman what the moss growing out of his face was "at least once a week".

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I think pesticide shows humankind's desire to control nature, but in doing so destroy everything. After using weedkiller, the area is often dead and sparse, which reflects the compounds after Crake's act of bioterrorism.

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Ouroboros symbolizes the infinite natural cycle of life and death. the snake swallows its own tail, signifying that the past appears to disappear but really moving into an internal existence - the transformation of life on the Earth from a high-tech human society (the snake before) via a genocide (the snake swallowing its own tall) to a rebirth of nature and an eco-friendly artificial society (the snake after). Notably, technology seemingly disappears but is actually in internal presence via the Crakers and the forever artificial alterations to the Earth.

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Trying to replicate / improve on nature using technology. Society placing value only on technological advancements and developments, rather than nature.

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Colour: Chrome Green
The chrome aspect of the colour often makes it look like plastic. This refers to the artificial presence of nature made by people.

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Very light grey: White is the colour that remains when all other colours are removed (or absorbed by the object), and it is a 'pure' colour. This represents how Crake removed what he believed to be the 'impurities' from the world. However, I have chosen a very light grey, because the world is still tarnished by what society has done to it. The Crakers are also not pure, because they are artificial and despite Crake's best effort, that is exactly how they appear to be.

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Magenta
- Scientifically isn't a "real" colour as it does not appear on the visible spectrum of colours, and yet can be perceived by humans and animals
- Relates to Snowman's surreal perception of the world he was left to die in
- Also relates to how nothing in the new world is necessarily "real" or scientifically absolute, and instead objects are classified as what they are perceived to be by either Snowman or the Crakers.

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Illusion: Because although there is a surface illusion that the society now is 'perfect' yet the 'reality' or 'truth' behind that is that generations of abuse and mistakes can't be solved/removed. The damage that they had done to nature before can't be reversed.

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Crow
Snowman notices crows when he goes back to the compounds after the event which symbolises death and bad luck. So in this case, Snowman noticing the crows symbolise the death of civilisation.
"a trio of crows perched on the rampart"

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Stinging nettle:
- Weeds: something commonly removed
- "growing back" after the apocalypse

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Salmon Pink - I chose this color because of the fact that it resembles freshly healed wounds. When humans receive abrasions upon their skin, the skin heals to form a light pink color, symbolizing renewal but also vulnerability. It symbolizes the new world in the sense that it is still regrowing, rebuilding itself, but it still needs more time to stabilize.

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(Mule)
Mules are unable to reproduce. This is symbolic of the situation of survivors after the event - survivors cannot rebuild society as they do not have the resources or communication to do so, and, as explained by Crake, the Crakers have no desire or ability to do as such - pg 358 "hierachy could not exist amoung them... there was no territoriality".

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Sea Green:
The uprisal of nature after the event is linked with the colour green as it expresses a natural and rejuvenating connotation. However, the dark 'sea' colour to it alludes to the new danger that Jimmy faces in the setting after the event. The Wolvogs in particular demonstrate this as they are an ever present threat that now exists within the setting.

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The internet
The internet shows and represents the movement of information in this new era. It allows more people to have access to information, which in the past would've been kept from them. The internet also has dark aspects, with things like scams or the dark web, which accurately represents the society we see in the book (the money grabs of the genetic modification "yet another way to rip off a bunch of desperate people".

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Symbol for the setting after is a glass display - humanity was almost completely destroyed, but all the structures and people remain to slowly decay and be displayed to the Crakers. Some people are even 'displayed' as false gods (Snowman, Crake, and Oryx).

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A city
A city is where things are organised and structured, but its characteristics might be misemployed by people for crime. Although there is a wide range of technology in the setting, they have been exploited, which eventually resulted in the plague.

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The computer represents the technology that surrounds and consumes the life of the population before the event. In this case, the technology is not just computers and televisions, but also the technology of genetic modification and creation of things such as the strange chicken breast bush (Page 237). The reliance of humanity on technology such as those mentioned above.

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Building on the colour I picked for before the event (grey), a hamster wheel further supports the idea of a routinised world.

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I thought moss or creepers (type of plants) would be good as a symbol as most likely there would be plants which would have overgrown and taken over buildings, indicating a sense of "takeover" by the animals and the plants (especially those created by humans artificially).

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Colour: Yellow-Green
Yellow-green is quite an artificial colour that uses both the greens of the nature that is slowly returning, however, also the artificiality of the environment continues. It is also a sickly colour, emphasising how the world has already been tainted and can never truly return to its natural state.
References to how animals such as the "Rakunks", "pigoons" as well as environmental and timed weather changes evident in the quote "After the worst of the glare and heat is passed, after the daily thunderstorm has come and gone." emphasise the artificiality of the environment that still exists.

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The symbol is artificial grass, which symbolises the new humans and animals in the world , who are similar to the real creatures before but are artificially created

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Seed- Represents the new physicality and birth of social setting. This seed(SOCIETY) has been modified by Crake but can only grow into a plant by a nurturer and someone who guides the society, which in this case is Snowman. He cannot control the growth of the natural seeds or plants around him, but can control this social setting and help it grow like a seed

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Dark Green:
Green is a colour which is commonly associated with plants such as trees/plants and nature has taken back the world from the humans. The dark variant of green was chosen as unlike light green which is a more cheerful colour, dark green is a much more gloomy colour which is more fitting for a setting where pretty much everyone is basically dead.

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Dark green - I chose dark green because his life after the event is much more integrated with nature, as he lives outside among the trees, surrounded by feral animals. At the same time his life is still impacted by the crakers, who are not the common humans, which makes his life more artificial even though he is amongst nature.

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Green with a silver sheen - Although everything is now degrading back to nature (green - colour of most plants), there is still the touch of the old world (silver sheen - industrial, shiny metal colour).

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DIRTY FISH BOWL
The glass walls surrounding the fish inside are representative of the nature of the world that humans have constructed around them; one that is artificial and separate from the natural world.
The dirt inside - in real fish tanks it's caused by the fish themselves - is representative of how humanity is damaging itself through its own actions.
The algae clogging up the walls could represent our skewed view of the world outside?
EVIDENCE
Pg. 92: "The it would be some bioform that had kakked out within the past 50 years - no T-Rex, no roc, no dodo, and points off for getting the time frame wrong. Then you'd narrow it down, Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species, then the habitat and when last seen, and what had snuffed it. (Pollution, habitat destruction, credulous morons who thought that eating its horn would give them a boner.)"
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Colour: dark green
I chose dark green, split into dark and green. Green represents nature, while the dark is representative of past (which was negative).

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Yin and Yang represents how both white and black are both needed to exist. How the technologically advanced places only seem advanced as they are compared to the poor areas. If there were no rich cities then the poor ones would rule then there would be chaos.

“We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.” This quotes expresses how there is both beauty and ugliness around, however, the beautiful environment shines brighter when contrasted with a dirty environment.

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Colour: Grey
The colour grey is associated with dull and neutrality. But also it can be said the setting (physically) before the event is filled with buildings and life was routinised.

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the overgrown surroundings

for example the first two chapters talk about Snowman and how he lives now. he has been abandoned and the nature has been taken over.

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Ghost town
A ghost town is artificially built by humans for human benefit but it has been abandoned and nature has gradually taken over it. The setting has once experienced an exploitation of technology. Despite its abandonment, there is still a potential danger of it being a threat to the surrounding people
"Will they hurt us?" Sometimes they find tins of motor oil, caustic solvents, plastic bottles of bleach... (after the event)

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Light pink:
- colour of newborn
- "fresh" from the womb
- The colour after the struggle and pain of the mother
- calm after the storm (chaos of the bioweapon and society)

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The hamster wheel represents humanity's greed and necessity to keep progressing. In the before version of this world, individuals are valued on their ability to contribute to society through the sciences and the technologies. Hamster wheels, much like treadmills, never stop, and this means that it is impossible to stop progressing with technology. The hamster wheel also represents a barrier, with the person using it, removed from it's surroundings as they work towards an endless goal. Hamster wheels are also unnatural. 'Pair-bonding at this stage is not encouraged... We're supposed to be focusing on our work.' pg 243

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(I lost my other note so I'm making a new one)
Neon yellow
Yellow is associated with happiness, so I think a neon yellow shows the "fake happiness" in the atmosphere of the compounds. "What well-to-do and once-young, once beautiful woman or man... wouldn't sell their soul for a second kick at the sexual can?" (pg. 62) This quote shows the desperation for "happiness" in the compounds.

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The colour of rust -
After the event, all the buildings and other structures are no longer getting taken care of. Because of this, the likelihood of buildings or other structures breaking down or perhaps rusting, especially in the pleblands.

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A plastic bag - Before, everything was done for convenience (NooSkins to keep you young, ChickieNobs for you to eat, HealthWyzer for spotless immunity...But, like a plastic bag, these conveniences end up being detrimental to the world.
"[Humans] never learned, [they] made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain."

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Iceberg

Superficially, a society that is very natural and 'perfect', however, beneath the surface, this has only occurred due to generations of abuse and overuse of technology to create this ideal society. Someone who only knows about life after the apocalypse would only see the tip of the iceberg, however, it is understood that in reality, there is much more to it.

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The symbol is a bin where the stuff inside symbolises what happens in the pleeblands, and the bin which contains the trash of people is similar to how the compounds wall up and seperate people that are inside from the messed up world outside

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Translucent Red
Representative of Jimmy's character and how it influences setting. Jimmy's perspective of setting is tinted by his anger. Reality can be misconstrued through his words. He often compares the before to after and he is unable to see the possible beauty of the after.

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Open Bird Cage (Releasing the Bird)
With the switch of setting to a very environmental world, I think that an open bird cage really symbolises this constrained release that humans had on the environment. This symbol can be linked to when Snowman calls his facial hair "feathers" to the crakers as since birds are associated to feathers, I think that this links to a sense of freedom that the new world has.

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The symbol is a piece of translucent glass that restricts the full image of the persons arm. This refers to facade put on by the medical industry in the story.

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'Fresh' start for

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The mirror represents the way that the world is kind of a mirrored version of ours, except many real things are replaced with artificial versions, with animals, organs and even people being replaced (the crakers themselves).

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Dark Grey - Representing a very concrete like world, run by large companies only looking to make a profit out of anything they can find, even at the loss of others.
- "Rows of dingy houses; apartment buildings with tiny balconies; factories with smoke coming out of the chimneys"

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Pyramid:
Before the event there was a strange hierarchical nature, between both the Pleeblands and the Compound as well as within each party. This is seen in the juxtaposition between the advancement and wealth between the Pleeblands and Compound, as well as between 'Martha Graham' and 'Watson-Crick.'  The symbol of a pyramid below links to this as it represents how there are divided classes within this society as well as how each of this metaphorically above each other.

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Dark Grey
The life that they live now is run by technology, technology which leads them to money, which is what drives most of those people with power. Again, there is a darkness to this world, especially morally, where a lot of unethical events are occurring. Also associating with dark grey, are storms, which appear in the text. " But June was now the wet season all the way up the east coast, and you
couldn’t have held an outdoor event then, what with the thunderstorms", shows effect of all these modifications on the natural pattern on weather and the Earth in general.

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Bright green: The world is taken up by more natural things again, but is still showing hints of artificiality

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Bright purple: It is widely debated whether purple is really a 'colour' because there is no wavelength that corresponds to it. I chose this colour because it almost reflects how the setting before was fake, unnatural, a 'pseudo-reality'.

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Artificial eye for Reality:
Jimmy lives in a world where "you couldn’t tell whether any of these generals and whatnot existed any more". Reality and information can be easily manipulated by almost anyone, anywhere.

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I wanted to convey how the setting is dictated by the hierarchical implications of the setting and how the environment and physicality of the settings are also dictated by these social statuses. I also decided to draw the money sign in an eye, as those who are under this hierarchical control, continue to keep looking at the differences between the Pleeblands and Compounds, and the effects that money and materialistic ideals plays in the setting. The eye is also a very human/ natural aspect of us, hence how the setting is controlled, by us as well.
- "The pleeblands seemed to boundless, so porous, so penetrable, so wide-open. So subject to chance." (Pg 231)
Emphasises how the physical setting of our extreme capitalist society has led to be such a place like the pleeblands, and differentiation in social status.

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I chose a Ferris wheel because Jimmy's life before the event revolved around the his life within the compound.

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The double helix is the shape of DNA. It is a symbol of the setting as  throughout Jimmy's past life, he lives in the compounds - a place which is full of people working on genetic modification.

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This image because it is structured, it follows the same pattern and how you can't take one piece out without affecting the rest.

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dark green: Nature and animals are prevalent again, but a lot of the life is artificially hostile and genetically engineered (pigoons, wolvogs). Darker shade is due to the hostile and artificial characteristics of the nature.

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Light Blue
The color introduced with innocence and new life in reference to the bio terrorism that has destroyed humanity and washed the world anew. The setting for life is based on human imperfection but resulted in the return of harmless nature that can do no wrong. It brings life back to is roots, and also destroys man made structures and creations that caused issues in the first place

Quote "It is called home"
A more natural setting than the last one

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Bright green - After the event, there is no more technology and a much bigger emphasis on nature, which is represented by the green. However, although the world has been largely taken back by nature, there are still remains of the artificiality (represented by how bright it is) left by the 'before' time, such as the pigoons, wolvogs, and crakers.
"Them, or the wolvogs: it wouldn't take them forever to figure out that he no longer had a spraygun" PG 43

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Silver/gray - artificial, loneliness. genetically engineered and manipulated, such as the rakunk, pigoons. The world is now a place of uncertainty

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Camouflage

Camouflage is a colour with multiple shades ranging from tan to darker green. This is somewhat representative of what the society has become, in that the new 'natural' way that the Crakers live is actually built on the ruins of the previous, overly technological society. Dark and murky green colours are very prominent, which display raw, pure nature, however, lighter and more pale colours (like tan and light green) are still present and shining through, which, comparatively, seem unnatural, but are trying to blend in. There is certainly an element of nature there, however, it is an artificially created nature.

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I think that this symbol where we see a clear difference between the rich and poor is a good example of describing the gap between the Compound (visualised left, with lots of money and "power") and the 'pleeblands' (visualised right, with little "power").
Example: the Compound is described as perfect, picturesque whereas the pleeblands are described as full of 'endless, dingy-looking streets,... thousands of people hurrying, cheering, rioting." which sounds like a poor place to live.

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Green
Nature reclaims what was once theirs. Animals roam freely and man-made structures are covered with the growth of vines and plants.

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The symbol is a dollar note in a water bottle, as money plays a central role in the before setting, to the point where it is like the water that keeps people alive.

EXAMPLE: HealthWyzer secretly dosing the population with diseases so they can sell medicine for those diseases to make a profit, going as far as to withhold the medicine to drive up profits due to scarcity.

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Hamster cage:
- Under surveillance and control
- "Freedom to" and "freedom from"
- A Physical barrier from the outside, reminiscent of the Compound/pleebland gap

P231: "bullet train connection...looking out the window at the pleeblands... apartment with tiny balconies...factories with smoke coming out...gravel pits...garbage..."

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Grey
Colour and life is stripped from the buildings and communities that once thrived, including the physical detiriation of paint from buildings, creating a grey overcastness over civilisation. This is shown upon Snowman's return to a compound, which he describes as "warm air, humid, unfresh... dark except for a few skylights."
Grey also represents solitude, which is experienced by all surviving humans after the event, as well as an attitude of hopelessness and defeat, exemplified in the destruction of civilisation.

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A textbook because no freedom, uniform, ordered, as well as Jimmy's schooling, education etc.

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Marionette
Society is controlled by the corporations and everything that encompasses life. They control living space, food, entertainment as well as healthcare. Society is the puppet of the corporations

Ex: Healthwyzer had all the funds to shape reality and change for people outside of the compounds

Pg 25-27
Shows how animals are exploited for food

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Colour: Forest Green
After the event, the world went back into its original natural ways (technology free) therefore, nature becomes a very prominent feature thus the as nature is usually associated with green.

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Ticking time bomb is representative of the looming, foreshadowing that is present through the setting before the event. Actions, such as the argument between Jimmy's parents (pg 65), can foreshadow future events. Jimmy thinks, "Maybe there would be action, broken glass.... If there was going to be a catastrophe, some final collapse, he needed to witness it." The setting development of Jimmy's home life, and his parents' failing marriage, is a ticking time bomb that is representative of the bioterrorist attack to come.

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a bird cage - the symbol of the lack of freedom. the citizens are similar to the caged bird as in how society restricts their freedom, how the citizens is watched and their life is almost transparent to authorities.

extracts: p60-61

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Dark Blue - After the event, the setting switches from a concrete like world to more of an environmental world. The storm after the event also plays a large role in this new weather and setting shift, focusing on the misuse of power from Crake on the environment. This dark blue represents the fierce response of the environment as it takes back the world.

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The world before the event has a social order defined by money and corporations. The need for money is shown clearly in the book with the juxtaposition of pleeblanders and those in corporate-built communities. A direct example is that of the focus on money in the "rankunk" extract analysis.
Page 141 - "It's a CorpSeCorps thing, said Crake. Commisision work. A lot of funding." describes why dogs are genetically altered to kill, showing how the interests of those with money are supported against those without.

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Sandy brown - The colour associates with sand which appears on a beach - the place where the Crakers first appeared at after the event. They were also playing on the sand which shows the purity of the circumstances they were stuck in.
The children scan the terrain, stoop, pick up flotsam...

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Metallic grey
Grey is a blend of black and white, the white representing the highly advanced technological places, the black representing the places in poverty, and how they are dirty, unsafe and corrupt. Metallic grey represents how all the poor
undeveloped areas are shadowed by the positives of the rich technologically advanced areas.

"The HelthWyzer Compound was not only newer than the OrganInc layout, it was bigger. It had two shopping malls instead of one, a better hospital, three dance clubs, even its own golf course.". This quote expresses how advanced these rich compounds are.

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Murky Green:
Dark or Murky Green is representative of jealousy/ envy as well as association to money.
- "Compared with Martha Graham, Watson-Crick was a palace" (Pg 234) - Emphasises the differences in social class and the materialistic ideals prominent in the extreme Capitalist society.

- "If only he could be like that - intellectually honourable." (Pg 80) - Although it is specific to Jimmy, I feel as though this links quite closely to the fact that in this extreme capitalist society, everyone is envious of something or someone.

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Dark Turquoise/teal -  The turquoise/teal has elements of both green and blue, both colours associated with nature. The colour also associated with calmness, and after the event, with nature taking over slowly, it gives the image of calmness.

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Pale green - Prior to the event, nature was neglected, and after the event, there is a much stronger emphasis on nature.
This is seen in these contrasting quotes:
1) "'I don't believe in nature either...or not with a capital N'"
2) "After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful?" - and then his realisation - "Because it is."

The pale green is also symbolic of how anything that affirms life (the green) also affirms death (the paleness of it) - Snowman is now living in a sort of limbo