GR Interpretation Arcs cont'd

[J K Van Nort]

As the novel’s title implies, this book will be about arcs, or what goes up must come down. The setting, beginning at night, in a nightmare, underground landscape, establishes the longer arc of day, rising from darkness to cross the sky. However this first arc of the story begins with descent, this is the arc of night, and of the hero’s journey to the underworld and back. These aren’t heroes but huddled and herded sheep. The descent has already begun as the cars, loaded with the dispossessed, begin to move through the underworld of ‘underpasses’ and tunnels into the depths of the city where ‘it is poorer the deeper they go’. The path narrows rather than leaving the city, they go into its ‘final arch’ where they are unloaded ‘without resistance’. They move down ‘corridors straight and functional as warehouse aisles’ to be stored. They rise on lifts/elevators and move into ‘hushed rooms without light’. They wait because there is ‘no way out’. This arc of night replicates one vision of death: the death that waits, static, while queues of humanity shuffle to it. This death vision incorporates both the holocaust as well as D-Day and , in the Pacific theatre, Tarawa, horrors of mindless death mills.

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