
Laika is a sacrificial lamb that is emblematic of the Miu and Sumire’s forfeitures.\ Although the satellite is not overtly connected to the plot, it is symbolically noteworthy. Ultimately, Miu states the term (Sputnik) while endeavouring to catalogue Jack Kerouac’s literary generation. Laika became the first living being to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, but the satellite was never recovered, and Laika ended up sacrificed for the sake of biological research in space.” Alluding to the satellite affords contextual facts regarding the denotational implication of Sputnik. On 3 November of the same year, Sputnik II was successfully launched, with the dog Laika on board. Sputnik was 58 cm in diameter, weighed 836 kilograms, and orbited the Earth in 96 minutes and 12 seconds.

The historical allusion concerning Sputnik shapes a reader’s deconstruction and grasp of the title: “On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first man-made satellite, Sputnik I, from the Baikanor Space Centre in the Republic of Kazakhstan.


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