Auroraville (Ghost Town)

This part of the novel, Crichton, (2004) has created a detailed description of the buildings of the town within space. Here the space is created statically from the view of the character and how they interact within this space. The space created seems to be empty of life, it has no character or charm, it creates a fantastic narrative where the story starts evolve and the characters are lost within this lifeless and empty environment, but must get out in order to stop the lightning storm. It is an unordered space which is distopic and unpleasant.

“Sarah saw the roofs of wooden buildings bleached by the sun. It took her a moment to realise that this was a ghost town....and now she saw a porch, a dilapidated building, and swinging from the roof a sign bleached so gray she couldn’t see what it said....the rain was coming down harder, big splattering drops that struck her back and shoulders as she ran to the next building. It had a chimney, and generally looked better built. But the windows were the same, broken and thickly coated with dust and grime.” (pp 388 – 390)