Genre
Fiction
Setting and Context
Written in the context of an ancient Greek tale
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Sad, sanguine, informative, fascinating
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonists are Anna, Omeir, Seymour and Zeno.
Major Conflict
The main conflict is when the Saracen Forces destroy a copy of Cloud Cuckoo land that Anna had initially discovered.
Climax
The climax comes after 1957 when Seymour becomes remorseful for his earlier action of setting a bomb to kill the children trained in rehearsing to perform Cloud Cuckoo by Zeno. Zeno grabbed the bomb and ran to an empty place to save the kids but died when it explored.
Foreshadowing
The actualization of Anna's dream book 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' is foreshadowed by the advanced technology that recovers the illegible text for transcription.
Understatement
The impact of Seymour's bomb is understated. The bomb's effects could have been worse if Zeno had not acted first to grab it and run away with it from the children. As a consequence, Zeno died, but all the children survived.
Allusions
The story alludes to the past, present and future, highlighting the significance of technology in book scanning.
Imagery
The images of the death of Zeno depict sight imagery to readers to see his determination to save the children.
Paradox
The main paradox is that Seymour sets a bomb to kill innocent children rehearsing to perform 'Cloud Cuckoo land.'
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
An intergenerational experiment is a metonymy for approval.
Personification
N/A
