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“Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.”

Tout sur le livre de Douglas Coupland : Player One

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Chapter 2 : Hour Two : ''The Best of the Rest of your Life''

"If the day's events were a story, readers would have to wait for the next chapter to find out what happens next. When it comes to paintings, on the other hand, one glance is all you need to divine what will follow. Life is more like a book than a painting."...

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Chapter 2 : Hour two ''The Best of the Rest of your Life''

"Dammit, if I spend my whole life looking and looking and looking at the world, but I guarantee it, the moment I move my head away from my patch of ground will be the exact moment the earth cracks open – and if I'd been watching, for just that one second,...

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Nature or humanity ?

In chapter two, Player One explains that Karen will remember a game called ''Pretend you're dead'' she played when she was a child. It can sound ironical in view of the events because now it is real. But, Karen thinks « as quickly as possible, they had...

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What is normal ?

Rachel has a life mission, she wants to be pregnant to prove her parents she can lead what they consider a '' normal life ''. In fact, the human being is formated. We are clones who do the same things : go to school, have a job, earn money, be married...

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Why is the human being superior to animals ?

Why is the human being superior to animals ?

The difference between animals and humans is the word '' emotion ''. In fact, we have emotions because we have an evoluted brain. Rick says : « It doesn't matter where in the universe you are, all emotions are the same, a universal constant ». The human...

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Fear of death

In chapter three, there is a succession of questions from Karen's daughter. It emphasizes the stress of the characters and the readers because the girl does not understand what is going on but her mother does not want to answer her. It is really stressful...

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Survive !

In Chapter three, the scene seems to be a war with the explosions outside like bomb attacks and the characters who hide from the sniper. They start to have a survivalist mindset . In chapter three, Karen is picking some food thinking that « Legumes, grains,...

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Representation of Death

In chapter two, Player One explains the thoughts and feelings of the characters after the death of Warren. They are traumatized and each one wonders about his/her own life and remembers about his/her past. Rachel remembers her teacher told her that every...

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The Importance of Time

The Importance of Time

Time is unstoppable , we can not stop it or return in the past because we live in the real world, in the present time. Luke thinks « if the day's events were a story, readers would have to wait for the next chapter to find out what happens next. When...

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It can't be real !

In chapter two, Karen is frozen by the non-ressemblance between the real Warren and the photo he put online. Warren duped her thanks to the Internet. On the Internet, we can post everything we want, we can invent a new life. There is a great difference...

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