Where the Dead Are story
An American Civil War era physician searches for the secret to immortality.
10 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| revival long after death | choice | Dr. Wheaton discovered a method to revive the dead and was using it to keep the inhabitants of a small island community alive well beyond their alloted years. |
| human life in late modern times | major | We saw a depiction of what it might have been like to live in New England in the years after the American Civil War. |
| the quest for immortality | major | When people understood that they could live on indefinitely they became obsessed with it to such an extent that they held Dr. Wheaton hostage and cut off his legs. |
| American Civil War | minor | Dr. Ramsey had grim flashbacks to his time as a Union Army surgeon in this war. |
| coping with a grumpy old coot | minor | Dr. Ramsey interviewed Dr. Wheaton who was renowned for hist nasty demeanor. |
| medicine | minor | The viewer is treated to an appendectomy performed to narration. |
| mobility impairment | minor | Dr. Wheaton had lost both legs from the knee down. |
| the flip side of immortality | minor | Wheaton's niece remonstrated in a letter about her unnaturally extended life. The island zombies did also not seem altogether happy with their lot. |
| uncle and niece | minor | The elderly Dr. Wheaton was being cared for by his adult niece Susan. |
| what it is like in a combat zone | minor | We saw a grim depiction of a Union Army surgeon working on or near an American Civil War battlefield. |