A Long Walk to Water
This character walks hours each day to find water for her family.
Nya
In this society, people are forbidden from using this one-word pronoun to refer to themselves.
"I"
These government officials monitor citizens and control public order in the Republic.
Nimbus Agents
This character survives the Khmer Rouge through music.
Arn
She must marry Demetrius or become a nun.
Hermia
The civil war in this country forces Salva to flee.
Sudan
The main character of the novel is known by this name for most of the story.
Equality 7-2521
This Scythe is known for compassion and careful gleaning.
Scythe Faraday
The Khmer Rouge used this phrase to describe their plan to start over.
Year Zero
Puck's alternative name
Robin Goodfellow
This is the tribal group Salva belongs to, which influences his conflict with others.
Dinka
Equality 7-2521 discovers and reinvents this important invention from the Unmentionable Times.
Electricity (or the light bulb)
One key rule of the Scythedom is that gleanings must be done fairly and without this.
bias or personal motive
This country invaded Cambodia and helped bring the regime down.
Vietnam
What is used to enchant the lovers
magic flower/ potion
This organization helps Salva bring clean water to Sudan.
Water for South Sudan
This is the name Equality 7-2521 gives to the girl he loves.
The Golden One
This is the name of the AI that governs society.
The Thunderhead
Arn is eventually adopted by...
Peter Pond
The play within the play is performed by this group of characters.
the mechanicals
This literary device is used when the chapters alternate between Salva and Nya’s stories.
juxtaposition
At the end of the novel, Equality 7-2521 chooses this new name for himself after embracing individuality.
Prometheus
This theme is explored through the morality of death and choice.
ethical responsibility or the value of life
This state is where Arn is eventually resettled after leaving the refugee camp.
New Hampshire
Shakespeare often writes in this metrical pattern made up of ten syllables per line, with alternating unstressed and stressed syllables—used to give rhythm and structure to dialogue.
iambic pentameter