Abstract
Gun Island is a story of travel and migrations, overlaid with myth and folktales, and the deepening crisis of climate change. It presents an intricately interwoven plot which connects human and animal, past and present, natural and the supernatural. This paper attempts to explore how the notion of interconnectedness manifests itself in each of these elements. Gun Island uses the myth of the Gun Merchant as a nexus to draw parallels between the Little Ice Age and our present-day scenario where droughts, floods, cyclones, wildfires and epidemics have become a part of our everyday lives. Gun Island projects unprecedented climatic conditions as the primary cause for these natural disasters. It becomes a clarion call for climate induced migrations as it skillfully portrays people and entire communities being uprooted from their native land and the drastic changes in the migratory patterns of different species due to changing climes and warming waters. Instead of projecting warnings of impending doom and apocalypse Gun Island focuses on giving the readers hope for a better tomorrow.
Highlights
Climate of an area includes seasonal temperature, rainfall averages and wind patterns
When there is a long-term altercation in these weather patterns, whether it is confined to a specific place or happens globally, it can be termed as Climate Change
Since the Industrial Revolution started over 200 years ago, human activities have added very large quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG) into Earth’s atmosphere
Summary
Climate of an area includes seasonal temperature, rainfall averages and wind patterns. His journey unfolds a series of events, that beautifully portrays the present reality of climate change and disruptive migratory patterns of both humans and animals induced by it. Gun Island explores different forms of migration, starting from people and entire communities being uprooted from their native land to the drastic changes recently prevalent in the migratory patterns of different species.
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