When Curie asked Rowan about his greatest fear, he replied that he feared nothing. After Citra failed her test, Rowan decided to purposely fail his own. She asked Citra about the worst thing she had ever done, but Citra lied when she said that she had pushed a girl down the stairs. Scythe Curie, the infamous Grand Dame of Death, administered their exam.
They faced the first test of their apprenticeship.
Meanwhile, Scythes Goddard, Rand, Chomsky, and Volta conducted mass-gleanings, killing large numbers of people in public places and wreaking terror among the public.Īt the Vernal Conclave, in which all the MidMerican scythes gathered to reflect on the previous few months, Citra and Rowan encountered many new scythes and observed the divisions that existed within the Scythedom. Citra and Rowan grew to be close friends, even though they bickered with one another. Faraday trained his new apprentices to master various forms of weaponry and glean with compassion. Citra and Rowan left behind their families, moved in with Faraday, and began their training for the deadly profession. Scythe Faraday, an old, well-respected scythe, recruited teenagers Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch as his new apprentices. In a future in which nearly all forms of natural death had been eradicated, scythes gleaned, or killed, humans to control the growing population. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016. As you can see from the title, there is a stronger focus on the Thunderhead in the second book in the series.The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Shusterman, Neal. Think of the Thunderhead as a 100% successful Alexa or Google Home. Citra has a strong connection with the Thunderhead, but if she becomes a scythe, all connections with the Thunderhead are cut. Well, I shouldn’t say “the entire” world as there are some people that are marked unsavory, some that choose to not abide by the AI (the tonists), and scythes cannot communicate with the Thunderhead. Not mentioned in the blurb is that the entire world is ran by something called The Thunderhead.
The first book has you pulling for both protagonists and the whole scythedome as you learn that even in a perfect world, there are still greedy, corrupt people. Citra and Rowan don’t really want to be scythes, but it is an apprenticeship they simply cannot turn down. Scythe is the first novel in the Arc of the Scythe trilogy and it became a favorite read immediately! Honorable Scythe Faraday takes two apprentices under his training, something that has never been done before. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. “A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery.
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