• 2017 a short story about the end of the world. Heavily symbolic.

     

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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '2017 a short story about the end of the world. Heavily symbolic.', 1.
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2017
Prologue:
The year is 2017. World War V ended six years ago. It wasn't much different from its predecessors. Men killed men without really knowing why. What started out as a conquest to rid the world of (somebody's definition of) evil, ended in disaster. One nation unleashed its bombs on another nation and then that nation released its weapons on another nation. Entire countries were flattened in one cataclysmic blow. The deadly cycle continued without abatement. One day it stopped. The leaders of the world had been beaten by their own game. Their own people soon turned on the few who…

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