The Day of the Triffids

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Here we will be talking about the novel, The Day of the Triffids.

1. Character
Sunny: Hey Vincent! I'm bored, lets talk about a character from The Day of the Triffids.

Vincent: I reckon we should talk bout Bill Masen's personality

Sunny: Really? alrighty. I think he has good moral standards and yeaah ...

Vincent: Hmmmm...yeah thats quite true remember at the beginning of chapter 3? "I had only to smash a window and take what I wanted. Nevertheless, it was hard to persuade oneself to do that."

Sunny: Yeah, he took ages to convince himself to do it even though it was the only way he could survive

Vincent: Yep, and he was reluctant to let go of his blind group, until they got sick.

sunny: mmmmmmmmmm

vincent: he also shared his scarce food with others.

sunny: yep... just so they could delay their death for a few hours perhaps.

Vincent: I'm bored, lets do something else.

2. Context

Day of the Triffids is set in a chaotic world where everything was dying and falling apart. The streets are littered with bodies and a plague has hit which is helping the triffids kill off all humans. Some evidence of this in the text is:

1. "Though the tiles still showed, the walls were barely vivible. The tidy garndens had vanished under an uncheacked growth of green, patched in colou here and there by the decendents of carefully-cultivated flowers. Even the roads looked like strips of green carpet from this distance"

2. " I looked across the valley, remembering the well-drained and tended meadows that had been there. Now it was far on the way back to the wild. The neglected fields were dotted with thickets, beds of reeds, and stagnant pools. The bigger trees were slowly drowning in the sodden soil."

3. "The half-track wasn't suitable for that job, so we took a four-wheel drive lorry. Although the nearest rail coal depot was only ten miles away, the roundabout route due to the blockage of some roads, and the bad condition of others, meant that it took us nearly the whole day. There were no major mishaps, but it was drawing on the evening when we returned."