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The Passengers
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Essay Topics
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death by suicide.
How does the novel’s fragmented structure, shifting among the Passengers’ perspectives, the jury, and media feeds, mirror themes of technological chaos while positioning readers as both participants and voyeurs in the unfolding crisis?
Examine the motif of secrets and hidden pasts. How does the Hacker’s systematic exposure of each Passenger’s private life critique a society that consumes personal tragedy as entertainment and passes judgment based on incomplete, curated information?
How do the parallel judgment systems of the Hacker’s public game and the government’s secret program reveal individual terrorism and state-sanctioned violence as dark reflections of one another?
