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* [[Distressed Dude]]: Julian. |
* [[Distressed Dude]]: Julian. |
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lena sometimes, especially towards the end of the novel. |
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lena sometimes, especially towards the end of the novel. |
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{{quote|Thinking about Brian, her fiance: "Has it ever occurred to you that you're allergic to ''life''?" |
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Tied up and being scolded by {{spoiler|Rachel}}: "Sorry to inconvenience you." }} |
Tied up and being scolded by {{spoiler|Rachel}}: "Sorry to inconvenience you." }} |
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* [[Double Standard]]: If two "uncureds" of the opposite sex fall in love and get involved with each other, they're merely considered to have "amor deliria nervosa" and it's bad because it's considered an unnatural version of the usual husband-wife relationships. If the two "uncureds" are of the same sex, though, their behavior is labeled as "Unnaturalism." |
* [[Double Standard]]: If two "uncureds" of the opposite sex fall in love and get involved with each other, they're merely considered to have "amor deliria nervosa" and it's bad because it's considered an unnatural version of the usual husband-wife relationships. If the two "uncureds" are of the same sex, though, their behavior is labeled as "Unnaturalism." |
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|It's insisting that Lena climb the border fence ahead of him that causes Alex to be shot by the guards.}} |
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|It's insisting that Lena climb the border fence ahead of him that causes Alex to be shot by the guards.}} |
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* [[Hobbes Was Right]]: The official stance of the government. |
* [[Hobbes Was Right]]: The official stance of the government. |
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{{quote|"Humans, unregulated, are cruel and capricious; violent and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous and good."}} |
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* [[In the Blood]]: Everyone believes this about the "deliria", which makes Lena's family somewhat unpopular considering what happened to her mother {{spoiler|the alleged suicide who's actually a prisoner}}, and her cousin Marcia's husband, a convicted Sympathizer. Lena herself feels this way at first. |
* [[In the Blood]]: Everyone believes this about the "deliria", which makes Lena's family somewhat unpopular considering what happened to her mother {{spoiler|the alleged suicide who's actually a prisoner}}, and her cousin Marcia's husband, a convicted Sympathizer. Lena herself feels this way at first. |
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* [[La Résistance]]: The Invalids, groups of un-cured people hiding out in the wilderness between the strictly guarded cities. They occasionally pull pranks, such as sending a herd of cows into a hospital (to imply that all the compliant citizens are mindless cattle) and have a network of spies and sympathizers in the cities. Government propaganda, of course, treats them as [[Always Chaotic Evil]]; there's even a children's rhyme that compares Invalids to vampires and werewolves. |
* [[La Résistance]]: The Invalids, groups of un-cured people hiding out in the wilderness between the strictly guarded cities. They occasionally pull pranks, such as sending a herd of cows into a hospital (to imply that all the compliant citizens are mindless cattle) and have a network of spies and sympathizers in the cities. Government propaganda, of course, treats them as [[Always Chaotic Evil]]; there's even a children's rhyme that compares Invalids to vampires and werewolves. |
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* [[Wild Teen Party]]: They're illegal, but they happen anyway. |
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: They're illegal, but they happen anyway. |
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* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Lena's monologue at the end mostly subverts this, as she's ''not'' really anyone special and admits it, but somehow manages to play it straight at the same time. |
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Lena's monologue at the end mostly subverts this, as she's ''not'' really anyone special and admits it, but somehow manages to play it straight at the same time. |
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{{quote|You have to understand. [[Naive Everygirl|I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way]].<br /> |
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{{spoiler|But I have a secret. [[Determinator|You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist]]. And there are [[La Résistance|many of us out there, more than you think]]. [[Hope Springs Eternal|People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.]]}} }} |
{{spoiler|But I have a secret. [[Determinator|You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist]]. And there are [[La Résistance|many of us out there, more than you think]]. [[Hope Springs Eternal|People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.]]}} }} |
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