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A Misled Paradise A Misled Paradise J.G. Ballard’s novel, Rushing to Paradise, provides its readers with humorous, insightful, and often disturbing views of some of today’s environmentalists. Although his characters are fictional, their thoughts and experiences are often those of today’s actual environmentalists. Ballard’s novel asks its readers to question peoples’ motives because as it portrays, people are not always out to do the “right thing”. Pages 48 and 49 clearly exemplify Ballard’s understated theme. On page 48 beginning with paragraph 7 through paragraph 3 on page 49, Neil, Dr. Barbara, and Irving Boyd are discussing the future mission to Saint Esprit. Although Dr. Barbara and Irving claim to be worried about the albatross, it is clear that the only worry on their minds is the recognition that the mission’s show, “The Sanctuary Island Project”, will receive. Irving intently tries to pursuade Neil to join the project because he sees Neil as an image his viewers will like. For example, Ballard writes, “Boyd’s eyes were fixed on Neil with all the humility of a film producer discovering a face of a Christ-like pathos” (Ballard 48). Boyd is most definitely funding the project for the money and fame show, people, dr, boyd, barbara, today’s, shows, irving, often, reality, project, neil, girls, because, albatross, willing, tv, receive, order, film, example, claim, based, ballard’s, about, 48, worried, viewers, true, survivor, society, similar, series, readers, ratings