Annihilation Discussion Q's

1) What is potentially relevant about the fact that this is Florida?

 

2) What do you make of the fact that the characters are known only by their "titles," not their individual names?   

3) What do you make of the fact that the biologist is the one telling the story? Why not the surveyor, for example, or the psychologist? What does this tell us about what is possibly most important to pay attention to in the novel?  

4) What might be significant about the fact that the Biologist keeps calling the Tunnel a "Tower"? What does this perceptual anomaly tell us about the nature of Area X? What other perceptual shifts or changes do you notice as you read through the novel? What do these tell us about the type of place that this is?