The World of the Draft
The age of the protagonist when he is drafted
What is 19
The story is told from this narrative perspective
What is the first person narrative perspective
The name of the activist group the narrator led before being drafted
What is the League for Bodily Sanctity
A retired academic who still holds an honorary title
What is a professor emeritus
the quality of being a single, whole person
what is individuality
The "official-looking" document which arrives through the data slot
What is the draft notice
The narrator uses this word to describe the elderly as walking collections of parts
What is "assemblage"
The classification labels the donor as a prefered type of recipient
What is the 6-A classification
To recruit someone to serve (usually in an army or for a sports team)
the government granting "preferred recipient status" in exchange for organ donation
what is the "social deal"
The specific organ the narrator mentions losing at the end of the tex
What is a kidney?
The narrator compares a man’s body to this defensive structure in a protest slogan
What is a castle
The narrator’s new goal: he plans to enter this field to "out-senior the seniors.
What is politics
The quality of being holy or inviolable, used in the League's name
What is sanctity
the term that describes the narrator's view of himself as a stockpile of organs and organ-resevoir rather than a "human"
What is dehumanization
The place where the narrator must report for his physical and surgery
What is Transplant House
This literary tone is used when the narrator says "Eat, drink, and be merry, for soon comes the surgeon."
What is irony / sarcasm
The organ the narrator "plans" on getting back some day
What is a kidney
A smooth, shiny, or well-groomed appearance, used to describe Teflon arteries.
What is sleek
The narrator’s change of heart highlights this theme, where he trades his "idealism" for "enlightened self-interest"
what is cynicism / what is the moral compass
What seniors use to help rebuild their old bones
What are skeletal snips from arms and legs of younger people
The narrator uses this Shakespearean "pound of flesh" reference, which is this type of device
What is a metaphor / an allusion
The narrator’s cynical final belief: he thinks he might live for this many years
What is a thousand years
A feeling of worry, unhappiness, or physical nausea mentioned by the advisor.
what is queasy
The story explores this "clash" between two age groups: the "splendid seniors" and the "hapless younger folk"
what is a generational conflict / age-based conflict