Na Viro Reflection

 Jasper Martin 

Dr Ellis 

EN 376

September 18, 2023 

    As the main plotline of Na Viro came to an end, I found myself looking at the ways the different stories being told in Na Viro all were concluded, what loose ends were left untied, and mainly, about how I felt about what I felt the message of the story was. Something I really liked in the story is how it went about the classic story trope of getting over a fear in a unique way. Tia is very talented in just about everything that has to do with exploring space, but she fears the unknown so she is afraid to do exactly what it is she wants to do. Tia also has things like family issues that I feel like even though this story takes place in a relatively distant future with many things that are far from relatable to the average person, through things like this, we get to feel like we understand her vulnerability. This got me thinking about how we view people just in the world today, and how even though many people live in these "different worlds," all people go through similar struggles and can relate in some way to each other. In my opinion, this is a focus of a large amount of modern writing. Even though you could be writing about something like Tia's situation, someone in the distant future, or you could be writing about someone in the distant past during the time of the Romans, and still, you could find things that could be related to from an emotional standpoint. I think Cole wrote Tia's relationships very well during this story. Her more than shaky relationship with her family is something I feel like really added to the story and while I would say it was not the "main plotline" of the story, with each chapter I felt like it was something constantly on my mind, and wondering how what she was going through personally could hopefully help to patch her relationship with her family. I think again, this is well written by Cole because she wanted to make a sub-storyline that was able to be related to while not feeling overbearing to the actual events of the novel. That was my favorite parts of it, but there were a lot of smaller moments, from Tia saying something too relatable in her sarcasm or her fear jumping at her for a moment, I felt Cole did an excellent job through the whole story, and was able to tie everything just enough to satisfy us while leaving room for interpretation on what would later happen.  

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