Plot
Citra and Rowan receive these colored items identifying them as scythe apprentices.
What are green armbands?
Faraday chooses to live simply in a small, sparsely furnished home. This demonstrates this trait.
What is modest or humble?
A person studying under an expert to learn a profession is called this.
What is an apprentice?
Citra and Rowan move into this character’s modest home for their apprenticeships.
What is Scythe Faraday’s home?
This scythe begins training Citra and Rowan in history, philosophy, science, and killcraft.
Who is Scythe Faraday?
A teenager secretly obtains immunity by doing this to Scythe Faraday’s ring.
What is kissing it?
Rowan suggests that he and Citra continue looking out for one another even though they are competitors. This reveals this trait.
What is caring, cooperative, or loyal?
This term describes people who enjoy breaking rules or behaving almost criminally.
What are unsavories?
Citra and Rowan notice people avoiding or flattering Faraday while shopping in this location.
What is the supermarket or market?
This apprentice selects junk food at the supermarket, earning disapproval from her companions.
Who is Citra Terranova?
Faraday is pleased when Citra and Rowan both refuse to perform this task for Mrs. Becker.
What is administering the fatal pill or gleaning her?
Citra and Rowan refuse to administer Mrs. Becker’s fatal pill. Their behavior demonstrates this quality.
What is compassionate, moral, or reluctant to cause harm?
This word describes Scythe Goddard’s flashy, jewel-covered robe, which is intended to attract attention.
What is ostentatious?
Faraday takes his apprentices to this woman’s workplace so they can observe her gleaning.
Who is Mrs. Becker?
This apprentice believes that he and Citra can compete while still looking out for each other.
Who is Rowan Damisch?
In Chapter 6, four scythes board an airplane and announce that they have selected these people for gleaning.
Who are everyone aboard the airplane?
The lead scythe appears to enjoy frightening and killing the airplane passengers. This reveals this negative trait.
What is cruel or power-hungry?
This is the collective term for a group of scythes.
What is an elegy?
Chapter 6 takes place primarily aboard this form of transportation.
What is an airplane?
This scythe leads the jewel-robed group that boards the airplane and announces a mass gleaning.
Who is Scythe Goddard?