Genre
post-apocalyptic fiction
Setting and Context
United States, Virginia, no exact time is given but evidence points to nowadays
Narrator and Point of View
Narrator: Ruby; POV: first person
Tone and Mood
Tone: cynical, depressed, anxious
Mood: dark, nightmarish, threatening
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Ruby, Antagonist: PSF's and Children's League
Major Conflict
Cate helps Ruby and Martin escape from Thurmond which leads to Ruby escaping from Cate and meeting Liam, Chubs and Zu.
Climax
Ruby in a state of emergency presses the button to call Children's League and Liam, wounded Chubs and her fall under their control.
Foreshadowing
Ruby's name is the foreshadowing of the degree of her powers. It makes it obvious that she isn't going to be a Blue or Green.
Understatement
Ruby understates Cate's and Children's League's true intentions and almost becomes their pawn at the very beginning,
Allusions
Allusion to Watership Down by Richard Adams
Imagery
Imagery of colors in the sorting of the kids with special powers, Ruby's name...
Paradox
Chubs-a nickname for a bony and skinny guy
Parallelism
“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a
Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you."
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
"Gone, gone, gone, sinking until there was nothing, like the earth had swallowed me up in a single, deep breath."
