![]() ![]() He insists he was safely suited up at the time but has begun to act very oddly. Later, Whitby claims the plant flowered briefly for an hour in the night, with no evidence of it happening. ![]() This unkillable plant is clearly supposed to be the same plant as Saul's vision. Saul sees a vision of it rising out of the trapdoor at the top of the lighthouse, which is the same place Whitby finds the indestructible plant which they bring back across the border. Apologies if this is going over ground already well-covered elsewhere.ĭoes Whitby suffer the same fate as Saul, and is this what allows Area X to expand to the Southern Reach headquarters? Saul gets infected/contaminated/infused by "the light" when he is drawn to the strange plant on the ground, a plant that re-appears, both literally and symbolically, towards the end of Acceptance as some kind of representation of the essence of Area X. I've been reading through the different theories here, and a light flashed in my head about Whitby. I've just finished reading Acceptance and my mind is still churning over trying to make sense of it all. ![]()
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