Genre
post-apocalyptic fiction
Setting and Context
Western United States, evidence points to nowadays
Narrator and Point of View
Narrator: Ruby, POV: first person
Tone and Mood
Tone: anxious, depressed, cynical
Mood: threatening, nightmarish
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Ruby, Antagonist: Clancy, President Grey and PSF's
Major Conflict
Cole, Ruby, and the rest of the group prepare for a hit on a smaller camp and after that Thurmond to free the PSI kids and take the camps down.
Climax
Thurmond is down and PSI kids are finally free and reuniting with their families, Ruby is hospitalized.
Foreshadowing
Ruby's unexplained sleepwalking foreshadows that it has something to do with the information that is being leaked from the HQ.
Understatement
Ruby and everyone else understates Clancy's presence in the HQ and how dangerous it turned out to be.
Allusions
Allusion to Shakespeare in chapter Eighteen.
Imagery
Imagery of darkness as a place where everything good is lost.
Paradox
N/A
Parallelism
"I breathed. The patches of dirt that didn’t wash away on my ribs and legs turned out to be bruises. I
breathed. I breathed.
I just breathed."
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
"The snaking cement monsters formed a tight circle around the inner city, choking us off from the outside world."
