The broken earth5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That is not to say she did not overcome any clichés, however. The fact that by the end of The Stone Sky it was solely up to a handful of characters (namely Essun, Nassun, and Hoa) to change the fate of the world completely severed the series from reality for me it came to resemble more clichéd speculative fiction works that I had hoped Jemisin would overcome. Since completing the trilogy, my point of view on this has not shifted much if anything, I believe the further we got in the series, the less the world of Jemisin resembled our own, and therefore her analogies became less effective in some ways. In my essay, I compared and contrasted disasters in the series to disasters in the real world, and how Jemisin effectively (and sometimes ineffectively) created analogies, and therefore a mirror, for how our own world works. ![]() Jemisin uses geological disasters to show how richer classes are more likely to survive, and yet, regardless, how geological disasters are great equalizers of Jemisin’s world and our own. Earlier in this semester I wrote my ThinkING Essay on how in The Broken Earth trilogy N.K. ![]()
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