Who is to blame The complete depopulation of the northern hemisphere is based on mistakes and misunderstandings, according to the novel. While not every corner of the earth will be charred and destroyed badly, everyone will suffer. The basic premise of the novel is that nuclear war if it comes, will have only one outcome. The beach is that of Melbourne, Australia, the southernmost city of the world, where the people live out the last days of their existence."On the Beach" is a dreamlike journey into the darkness of the Nuclear Age which is our time. It’s a hard back with a yellow ribbon bookmark.Nevil Shute's beach stands for the ocean of time, were the last waves are swishing and breaking in the sand on those shores. I found this book in fairly good shape at a used book store. Whitman seemed content to only raise the question of a dying planet. But of course Jupiter is still really there. However, due to clouds soon blocking the view, the young girl thinks that the planet has gone away forever and becomes sad. The poem is ominous in nature but is simply about a man teaching his daughter about the planet Jupiter, which they can see at night. The novel also begins with lines from Walt Whitman’s poem “ On the Beach at Night“. The phrase “On the Beach” is a Royal Navy term signifying “retired from service”. The New York Times said of the novel, “the most haunting evocation we have of a world dying of radiation after an atomic war.” Their attempts to live their last days as normally as possible conflict with the horrifying knowledge that they are at the terminus. The characters highly suspect that radiation is drifting down to them after having wiped out the rest of the world. I read the book several years ago and was greatly disturbed by it but still have the book up there among one of my favorites ever. The novel was published in 1957 and takes place in Melbourne, Australia, following the days of the last live people on earth. I still read about On the Beach in modern news articles as media asks “what novel on climate change will wake people up like On the Beach did for nuclear weaponry?” It is one among many prophetic type books that has predicted doom and apocalypse, but the book also impacted its readers heavier than most other novels do.
Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is credited as an example of fiction that changed the way we think about a major world problem or issue, in this case nuclear war and weapons.
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