Genre
dystopia
Setting and Context
Paris in a fictional future
Narrator and Point of View
Narrator changes from Thivai to Abhor;
Point of view: first person
Tone and Mood
Tone: blunt, cynical
Mood: nightmarish, pessimistic
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Abhor and Thivai; Antagonist: Abhor and Thivai's pasts, parents who contributed to their damaged characters
Major Conflict
Abhor and Thivai are two terrorists in Paris, both with grim pasts and both finding comfort in each other.
Climax
Thivai decides to become a sailor and wants Abhor to be at his side. Abhor refuses and Thivai betrays her location to the CIA. This leads to Thivai and Mark making ridiculous attempts to rescue her. Finally, out of prison Abhor thinks of become a part of motor-cycle gang but gives up, as it is too cruel for her.
Foreshadowing
"What you don't see, you don't know."
Understatement
"Bravo, masters, on your success! Like Prometheus, you have created fire or us."
Allusions
Allusion to Alexander the Great
Imagery
Imagery of death, blood, and decay of the destroyed Paris
Paradox
"...Alexander loved my grandmother by hating her."
Parallelism
"Death: I don't understand how you can be a doctor.
Death: You're a moralist.
Death: You know what's good for other people.
Death: You're the only one who knows what's good for all other people."
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
"Then who am I?, I asked Death. Perhaps I was asking the wrong person."
