List 'Em
The hyperempathetic sharers
Who are Lauren, Emery, Tori, Grayson and Doe?
Lauren and Zahra's mothers suffered from this
What is drug addiction?
What is a talk associated with a religion that often teaches something?
“You still think a mistake is when your father yells at you or you break a finger or chip a tooth or something. Out here a mistake—one mistake—and you may be dead. Remember that guy today? What if that happened to us?"
Who is Lauren?
The most important aspect of Earthseed
What is "God is Change"?
Three family names from Lauren's former community
What are the ...?
(Olamina, Dunn, Talcott, Sims, Payne-Parrish, Quantanilla, Balter, Yannis, Garfield, Moss, Hsu)
Suffers a torturous death that creates a rift amongst the family
Who is Keith?
Tether
What is to tie or restrict by a rope or chord?
“Robledo’s too big, too poor, too black, and too Hispanic to be of interest to anyone—and it has no coastline. What it does have is street poor, body dumps, and a memory of once being well-off—of shade trees, big houses, hills, and canyons. Most of those things are still here, but no company will want us.”
Who is Reverend Olamina?
The true destiny of Earthseed
What is to take root among the stars?
The individuals that make it to Acorn and survive
Who is Lauren, Zahra, Harry, Bankole, Allie, Justin, Dominic, Natividad, Travis, Emery, Tori, Doe, Grayson?
Loses a son, gains a son, loses a sister
Who is Allie?
Entropy
What is lack of order (often associated with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics)?
“Then let me read something. Let me know something about the you that hides. I feel as though … as though you’re a lie. I don’t know you. Show me something of you that’s real.”
Who is Harry?
Location of the first Earthseed community
What is Cape Mendocino (Bankole's land)?
Three major themes in this novel
What are: Change/Adaptation , Power of Religion, Compassion, Empathy, Growing Up, etc.?
Believes Olivar may save their family
Who is Cory?
Desalination
What is the process in which you remove salt from water in order to make it potable?
“All religions change. Think about the big ones. What do you think Christ would be these days? A Baptist? A Methodist? A Catholic? And the Buddha—do you think he’d be a Buddhist now? What kind of Buddhism would he practice? After all, if ‘God is Change,’ surely Earthseed can change, and if it lasts, it will.”
Who is Bankole?
Lauren's name for the journals in which she is writing
What are the Books of the Living?
Two major symbols associated with nature and destruction
What are fires and seeds?
These individuals represent chaos and destruction in Lauren's world
Who are the Paints?
Furtive
What is secretive or to be done in secret without others seeing?
"Your God doesn't care about you at all."
Who is Travis?
This is a major biological concept that inspires Earthseed
What is evolution?