First Journal Entry chapters 1-2

1. Describe the setting in the novel - time place and circumstance. Please use quatations to support your answer.

In the first two chapters the main character Theo has written a diary and that is what the chapters are. The diary explaines that the day he started writing the diary the last human born had been killed. He says he had started to write this diary he  was 50 years old. "I had settled down to begin the diary of the last half of my life".   He explains the places for example "the soft stone of Oxford is unlikely to survive the next couple centuries". And the situation of the time he expplains in the diary. All through Theo's teenager years he spent his summers at woolcombe the residence of Xan his cousin. "after a couple days at home I was sent to woolcombe." The second chapter talks about Theo's time at Xan's house in the summer.

2. Which characters have you been introduced to so far? What are they like? Is there any conflict between characters?

2 characters have been introduced so far. One is who is writing the diary and a major part of the first two chapters Theo. Theo is athiest and is a proffesor of history and like most people at his time has given up on the survival of humanity. Xan, Theo's cousin is the other character he is charming and not revealing. He is different as he is both nice and mean. He is the son of a baron and is currently Warden of England (dictator). There is no conflict between these characters. 

3.   Find a quotation that helps describe each of the characters you have been introduced to.

Theo - "What possible interest could there be in the journal of Theodore Faron, Doctor of Philosiphy, Fellow of Merton College in the university of Oxford, historian of the Victorian age, divorced, childless, solitary, whose only claim to notice is that he is the cousin of Xan Lyppiat, dictator and Warden of England." 

Xan - "He (he meaning Xan) never made me feel inferior; that wasn't his way. He welcomed me without particular warmth but as if he were recieving back his twin, a part of himself. He had charm, of course; he still has."

"When Xan is with another person he gives the impression of intimacy, interest, of not wanting any other company. He could hear of that person's death the next day with equanimity, could probably even kill him without a scruple. Now I can watch him on television as he gives his quarterly report to the nation and see the same charm."