Z for Zachariah: Difference between revisions

 

She runs away to the other side of the valley, where she tells him she will stay once she's finished taking care of the agricultural work and tending to the animals. What follows becomes a cat-and-mouse game with Loomis trying to force her to return, locking the small store where their seeds and fertilizer must come from, taking away the key to the tractor, and eventually trying to shoot her so she can't run away. Eventually she manages to steal the suit while he's out, and confronts him just before she leaves the valley, telling him that if he shoots her he really will be alone. Realizing he'll never get her to stay, he tells her he saw birds circling to the west, and the book ends with her writing in her journal, "I am hopeful."

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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Ann has a gun of her own, and has several opportunities to shoot Loomis, but ultimately decides to leave instead.

* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Ann considers this, but discovers Loomis was there ahead of her when he tries out the attempted rape listed below.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 2, bordering on Class 3.

* [[After the End]]: Nuclear and biochemical warfare appear to have wiped out most of the human race.

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Fortunately for Ann, Loomis is still so radiation-sick she fights him off without much difficulty.

* [[Author Existence Failure]]: O'Brien died before the last chapter was written, and his family finished it based on his notes.

* [[Depopulation Bomb]]: Created the deadly mushrooms.

* [[Driven to Villainy]]: It's implied that Loomis didn't become a monster until the war hit.

* [[Epistolary Novel]]: The entire narrative is written in the form of Ann's journal.

* [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: Ann initially thinks this; later, once she's discovered she's not the only one left, she has great cause to ''wish'' it was true.

* [[Sanity Ball]]: Ann is definitely the only one holding this.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: This happened to Loomis long before he found the valley, thanks in part to the fact that he {{spoiler|shot his friend and fellow survivor for wanting to take the suit and check on his almost certainly dead family}}.

* [[Title Drop]]: When she was a little girl, Ann had a Bible ABC book in which A was for Adam, the first man, so she assumed Zachariah was the last man.

* [[World War III]]: It lasted approximately two weeks before everything died.

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