The+Whole+of+the+Moon+-+Setting

Here are a few notes about setting. These came out of the discussions we had about setting in the text.


 * Starship **

Be sure to also talk about the roof, school room, the ward and the chemo room. The space as a whole was like a whole other world that could only be experienced if you had the Big ‘C’. Quite an exclusive setting in that sense.

__Symbolize anything? __

Within the walls of SS the patients are normal. As soon as they leave they become different and suddenly have to make excuses for their images, their lack of energy. They are not understood outside the walls of SS. It symbolizes Kirks isolation from all that he knew before he went there. “Nine storeys high and painted in bright candy colours like going to hospital is supposed to be fun.” “But up on the roof is a different story. The roof is a huge waste land, almost featureless.” “...brightly lit entrance of SS hospital what I can only describe as a major downer.” “Going home was a downer.”

This is where Marty and Kirk first trust one another. When Kirk first makes it up onto the roof having crawled his way up the stairs, being at the roof was the reward. There is a freedom on the roof. They are no longer confined by the cancer ward. “But up on the roof is a different story. The roof is a huge waste land, almost featureless.”
 * Roof **

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