Volume V Special Issue II May 2025

Name of Author : P. Ramya, Dr. T. Alagarasan

Title of the paper : Hope Beyond Isolation: A Refugees Journey to Survival in Joe Hills The Fireman

Abstract: The paper mainly focuses on refugees psychological struggle for survival in a dystopian society. The Fireman is a post apocalyptic novel set in a dystopian world written by Joe Hill, a creator of four major novels in American Gothic Literature. Joe Hill has inherited many artistic singularities from his father, Stephen King, including a treatment of supernatural and science fiction. The themes of power, domination, oppression, fear, and degraded moral values strongly influence the affecters psychic state. The mysterious fungus, Dragonscale, is spreading around Boston and Massachusetts, but half of the people in New Hampshire have been infected. The infected people are evacuated from their homes, and those who take shelter in an abandoned summer camp where infected people live together, hoping for survival through group singing. The protagonist, Harper, is a school nurse helping the infected people in New Hampshire. Later, she finds the symptoms of Dragonscale in herself that illness leaves a pattern of black and gold markings on the affected persons skin. She seeks shelter in an abandoned summer camp where she faces psychological struggle for survival through power, domination, and isolation. Power always plays a vital role in a society among the abandoned people.

Keywords : Isolation, survival, power, Dragonscale, Psychological struggle.

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Page Number : 92-95