"Major Event"
What is the guards' sudden disappearance?
This is the weather event the women encounter as they exit the bunker.
What is rain?
These are some things the women discover when they return to the bunker.
What are matches/tools/food/blankets?
This is what the women find as they look for signs of civilization.
What is a cabin with 40 trapped women?
The narrator wants to know everything she can possibly know. These are some of the things the women try to teach her about.
What is human anatomy/grammar/multipulcation?
This signals something is wrong.
What is the terrifyingly loud siren?
This describes the environment the women encounter outside the bunker.
What is barren/desolate/empty?
This realization challenges the narrator's expectations of freedom.
What is this freedom that is not necessarily free?
This distinguishes the women from the captives they find in the other bunkers.
What is the main group of women were able to escape?
This is what happens to the women after they find a renewed interest for a while.
What is boredom?
This is the women's first reaction to the situation.
What is shock?
This expected element of life is missing from the surrounding landscape.
What is human life?
This is the narrator's response to the realization that she's never going back into the bunker.
What is happiness?
This is what the women do to memorialize the other group of women in the bunker.
What is praying?
On the journey, the narrator asks Denise and Greta about their life before. This is why the narrator stops asking questions.
What is the narrator doesn't understand what they're talking about?
This is the first person who takes action after the guards leave.
Who is the narrator?
This is how the women suspect the guards left at first.
What is a helicopter?
This invention outside the bunker makes the women feel human again.
What is a private toilet?
This is the first woman to die.
Who is Dorothy?
This is the task Anthea designates to the narrator.
What is killing all of the dying women?
This idea explains why the women hesitate to act immediately.
What is the uncertainty about whether the guards will come back?
This is where the women decide to get supplies since they don't know how to sustain themselves in the natural environment.
What is the bunker?
This is a basic human function that makes the narrator uncomfortable, even though the guards aren't there.
What is physical touch?
The narrator is not content with the sedentary life, so this is what she does to stay busy.
What is busywork?
At the very end of the pages, there are four women left. Denise asks the narrator to kill her, but this is why the narrator can't do it, even though she's put many other women to rest.
What is Denise was not on the verge of death?