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Lucifer

Nowadays there are so many questions about the end of the world. When is the world going to come to a stop? Is it true that the world will end someday? The reason behind these wonderings may be for different topics, such as to be prepared spiritually, religiously or to spend all the money that a person has etc. If the world went under, would the cause most likely be that, a huge disaster had happened. Abounding of human-beings would die, and some would come through. Surviving the huge disaster that has happened, can not be easy. “Lucifer”, written by Roger Zelazny is a clear example of that. Carlson is the main character in the story, and he has survived a disaster that has happened, probably all over the world. Five or six years after, Carlson visits his hometown again to take one last look, where he also remembers that a lot of people had died. Everything is dead, including the flow.

Possibly the story takes place in the time, where the end of the world has happened. People are dead, basically there is no one alive, as Carlson says, “There was no one alive to ride”.1 So it may be pretty quiet and calm around him. The city is filled with a lot of buildings, but there was one special building that caught Carlson's attention. The one building that was dominated high such as tall as a mountain, compared to all the other buildings. The story is set in during the daytime as we get to know that the sun is shining, “It caught the rays of the bloody sun”2 Carlson goes into the building, where he also had worked in once upon a time. Bad unsuccessful memories from back in time also came clear for him. He had in mind to fix the flow, and it could be fixed in the Power Room, which was really dusty and mucky, especially the generators. Fixing the flow must be done before it gets dark, which means if it is not working, then he can not continue, when the darkness comes. The dusty setting gives us an impression of that the tone in the story is obviously kind of sad, Carlson misses the old days in his hometown and want to be reconciled with it. Carlson is also scared and nervous to rupture himself while fixing the flow, as it stands in the text, “Great rivulets of perspiration ran into his eyes and down...”3. As it is dangerous, he may be able to think that this is a matter of life and death. The setting tells us that, resuscitate the flow can be compared to the fact that he actually want to resuscitate the town, as he imagined, “He pictured the people in their homes, in theatres..”4

The story is told from a 3. person point of view, and it is a limited narrator, and the reason is that we only have access to Carlson's thoughts and his actions even though there aren't other any characters in the story, for an instance we get to know what he is thinking here, “he thought of the days when had worked with...”5 and one of his actions here, “God, he muttered...”6. The purpose of this kind of point of view is to make us readers come close to Carlson. The reason why the author has used this kind og narrator, can have something to do with that he wants us readers to feel how lonely Carlson actually is. The author wants to make clear that Carlson will recreate the town by telling us what he is thinking and doing.

The headline already gives us an impression of who Carlson could be compared with. Carlson's desire of being reconciled with his hometown, can be compared to Lucifer's desire of being reconciled with heaven. The lights Carlson made to the town, were stronger than the stars, as we see in the text, “The lights were not like the stars. They beat the stars all to hell”7 This can be put in context with Lucifer's power compared to God. The stars belongs to God. Carlson's lights pull the stars to hell, as if he was the Lucifer. The hell can also be looked at like the hometown.

We see that Carlson is struggling against loneliness, so it might be one of the themes in the story. The story is also about the time after an apocalypse had happened. How would the life be after an apocalypse? Mostly humans who survive an apocalypse would be lonely, by reason of almost every human-beings will be dead. The story also deals with hope, Carlson has hope when he fixes the flow, as it stands, “But he hoped that he was somewhat stronger – and luckier – this time”.8

After Carlson's unsuccessful attempt to keep the lights alive, he wanted to go back to the mountains. He kept the light for nine thirty-five, and twenty-one second. He decided that he would never return back to the Building that transfixed him. The reason why the Building is so transfixing to Carlson, may be those bad memories he has about the Buildings. The Building can be the cause for the apocalypse, as it stands in the text, “five or six years ago, when he worked within the giant unit”. There must have been some kind of an explosion that could be the cause for the apocalypse from the Building.

1p. 51 ll. 15

2p. 51 ll. 4

3p. 52 ll. 8

4p. 54 ll. 31

5p. 54 ll. 6

6p. 54 ll. 16

7p. 54 ll. 24

8p. 52 ll. 27-28