https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v By: Joshua Old en-us 2019-03-25 15:52:39 UTC 2019-03-27 16:59:35 UTC hello@padlet.com s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344891368 Pat Frank
Book Fact: It was a required reading for all high schools during the Cold War Era. 
Author Fact: Pat Frank died of pancreatic cancer.]]> 2019-03-25 15:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344891368 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344894457 The novel is based in the 1950's, in a small town of Florida called Fort Repose. ]]> 2019-03-25 16:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344894457 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344895883 Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon. Olive Editions, 2015.]]> 2019-03-25 16:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344895883 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344899683 2019-03-25 16:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344899683 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344900907 The title is a quote within the novel. Two characters agreed that if one was to hear of a nuclear attack, he would warn the other through telegram by saying, "Alas, Babylon." It also may have a biblical meaning, as Babylon is a city in the Bible that is destroyed by God much like how the cities are destroyed by nuclear bombs in the novel. ]]> 2019-03-25 16:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344900907 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344903548 2019-03-25 16:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344903548 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344908484 ""This incident was important only because it was self-revelatory. Randy knew he would have to play by the old rules. He could not shuck his code, or sneak out of his era"(98).]]> 2019-03-25 16:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344908484 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344913444 "You look real pretty and chipper today"(5).]]> 2019-03-25 16:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344913444 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344914216 "His black hair was tousled, his teeth white, and he looked boyish, handsome, and inoffensive"(5).]]> 2019-03-25 16:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344914216 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344915644 "Everybody knew that Randy dated lots of girls, and not all of them virgins"(6).]]> 2019-03-25 16:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344915644 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344916629 "Now he sat on a stool at this bar, half-filled a fat mug with steaming coffee, dropped two lumps of sugar into it, and laced it with an inch of bourbon"(7).]]> 2019-03-25 16:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344916629 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344917451 2019-03-25 16:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344917451 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344917977 "A man can't pick his relatives, only his friend, but Mark had always been Randy's friend as well as brother"(13).]]> 2019-03-25 16:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344917977 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344919742 "It seemed he ended every lurid verse with, "Alas, Babylon!" in a voice so resonant you could feel it..."(14).]]> 2019-03-25 16:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344919742 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344920916 "And what about government savings bonds, sir?"(115]]> 2019-03-25 16:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344920916 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344922139 2019-03-25 16:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344922139 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344980658 "In Fort Repose, a river town in Central Florida...(1).]]> 2019-03-25 18:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344980658 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344981358
 His theory of challenge and response applies not only to nations, but to individuals. Some nations and some people come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you’re going to harden" (111).]]> 2019-03-25 18:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344981358 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344981990 It wasn’t a dog any longer. In times like these dogs can turn into wolves. You did just right, Ben. Here, take back your gun"(197).]]> 2019-03-25 18:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344981990 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344983343 With the use of the hydrogen bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the Good Samaritan"(69).]]> 2019-03-25 19:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344983343 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344986479 "No, sir, I'm not dietin'. I got nerves"(9).]]> 2019-03-25 19:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344986479 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344988107 "He was a hermit, and a snob...and no better than a pervert"(6).]]> 2019-03-25 19:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344988107 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344988573 "His taste meant living with as little exertion and strain as possible"(7).]]> 2019-03-25 19:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344988573 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344989419 2019-03-25 19:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344989419 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344989845 2019-03-25 19:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344989845 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344990229 2019-03-25 19:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344990229 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344990793 "Randy was astonished. This was the first time in his adult years that he had struck, so far as he recalled"(103).]]> 2019-03-25 19:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/344990793 s_joshua_old https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/345802246 Alas, Babylon]]> 2019-03-27 16:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/s_joshua_old/n4nllpkm106v/wish/345802246