Characters
This scythe visits Citra’s home while waiting to glean her neighbor and later offers Citra and Rowan apprenticeships.
Who is Scythe Faraday?
Scythe Faraday visits the Terranova home because he is hungry and waiting to glean this person.
Who is the Terranovas’ neighbor, Bridget Chadwell? (Noooooo not BRIDGET!)
Rowan refuses to let Kohl face his final moments alone. His decision demonstrates this quality.
What is compassion or empathy?
Scythes use this word instead of “killing” when they permanently end someone’s life.
What is gleaning?
Much of Chapter 1 takes place inside this family’s home.
What is the Terranova home?
This outspoken teenager challenges Scythe Faraday at dinner and is later invited to become his apprentice.
Who is Citra Terranova?
Rowan comforts Kohl Whitlock during his gleaning by doing this.
What is holding Kohl’s hand?
Even though disease, aging, and natural death have been defeated, boredom, loneliness, and cruelty still exist. This develops this central idea.
What is that a seemingly perfect society can still have serious problems?
This protection prevents a person from being gleaned for a certain amount of time.
What is immunity?
Rowan first encounters Scythe Faraday at this everyday location.
What is Rowan's school?
This compassionate teenager stays beside Kohl Whitlock during his gleaning so Kohl will not have to face it alone.
Who is Rowan Damisch?
At the museum, Scythe Faraday surprises Citra and Rowan by offering them this opportunity.
What is becoming his scythe apprentices?
Citra and Rowan’s reluctance to become scythes is one reason Faraday believes they might be good at the job. This suggests that people with great power should possess this quality.
What is humility or reluctance to seek power?
This dangerous activity involves deliberately jumping from a great height and then being revived.
What is splatting?
Faraday arranges for Citra and Rowan to meet at this cultural performance before inviting them to a museum.
What is the opera?