Stung Literary Elements

Fiction, Science fiction

Future in Denver, Colorado

A first-person narrator from Fiona's point of view.

The tone is animalistic and sympathetic as humans fight for life and survival. The mood is dreary and toxic because of the danger of being in the affected side of the wall.

The antagonist is the "Big Bad" and the protagonist is Fiona Tarsis.

The conflict of the book is the fight to get to the healthy side of the wall. The infected and branded fight for a chance to get inside rather than get killed by the militia and raiders.

The climax is when Fiona and Arrin get caught by the militia and are sold to the world of beasts and monsters. The governor tells Arrin that if she kills Fiona, Arrin will have a spot on the healthy side of the wall.

Foreshadowing happens through every single event of misfortune that occurs to Fiona. Every time something bad happens to Fiona, it reflects her ultimate demise in the future and the struggle to gain her standings.

The book understates the amount of sacrifice given up by each character. Whenever Fiona feels like she has found a remedy, it just turns into another pathway to disaster.

The book alludes to several classical piano composers as a way of conveying Fiona's feelings, senses and emotions. A common composer used is Beethoven and his seventeenth symphony.

The author uses a vast amount of imagery to describe the environment and the disgusting, garbage-like situation around the wall. She compares all the senses such as hunger and denial to picturesque sceneries where the reader feels like they can envision the toxic waste of a life that humans on the other side of the wall live.

The paradox is that Fiona thinks that her brother will save her and take her away from a place of misery, however, she finds that he is chasing her and trying to hunt her down to ultimately kill her.

The parallelism in the book is mainly scientific. We can see the correlation between the toxic environment of the globe and the extinction of bees, therefore drawing a strong line for a pandemic to arise.

The metonymy in the book presents when Fiona and Arrin approach the places with the beasts and the monsters, also known as the "Big Bad". However, this is just a word used to describe a group of killers. Even though we associate the Big Bad with a specific villain it also reflects on the entire human population itself since we are the ones that have destroyed the environment.

The author personifies the rhythm of running, dropping of garbage, and killing as a song. Every survivalist action Fiona takes gets compared with a song and given life as it's own person.