The Biologist
This person is the true reason that the Biologist joined the 12th expedition.
Who is the Biologist's Husband?
Area X is protected by this.
What is an invisible boarder? (or mysterious boarder)
A pile of journals is discovered at the top of this structure.
What is the lighthouse?
This structure is a symbol meant to warn others of danger.
What is the lighthouse?
The novel is presented to the reader as this type of personal reflective book.
What is a journal or diary?
The Biologist feels more at ease with this general term for undeveloped landscape than she is with people.
What is nature?
What is the Tower or Tunnel?
What is the 12th expedition?
This word is also a hypnotic command used by the psychologist meant to destroy the Biologist.
What is Annihilation?
The novel suggests that powerful human organizations like the Southern Reach have no power over this.
What is nature/the natural world?
The Biologist often reveals important character traits using this literary device to examine moments from her past.
What is a flashback?
When descending into the Tower, the biologist gets a little too close to this and ends up huffing spores
What is the writing on the wall?
What are the hand shaped things? (or some variant) is also acceptable.
This animal is seen by the Biologist as she treks toward the lighthouse and it kinda freaks her out.
What is a dolphin with a human eye?
These creepy phrases are a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What are the words on the wall?
What is man vs. nature?
What is a flame?
What is a character?
The Biologist defeats this expedition member because of her heightened senses in spite of this member's military training.
Who is the Surveyor?
This character's brightness shows the power of Area X to assimilate overtake.
Who is the Biologist?
The Biologist taking the lighthouse keeper's photograph is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
The Biologist's husband returns from Area X, acting strange, because he is actually this.
What is a doppelganger?
The uncertainty of human perception is symbolized by this structure whose name the expedition members cannot agree on.
What is the Tower/Tunnel?
The Biologist chooses to do this at the end of the novel.
What is search for her husband?
OR
What is search for the island?
This transitional space tells us a lot about the Biologist's character during a flashback to her childhood.
What is the overgrown pool?
The name of the starfish that the Biologist tells us about in a tidal-pool flashback right before she sees the Crawler.
What is the "Destroyer of Worlds"?