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When the book first started citra and Rowan both signs of being disgusted by scythes and didn't fully understand them until faraday took them in as a apprentice this changed their way of thinking throughout the whole book as citra and Rowan learn more about the scythe world this opens up their minds and allows them to understand and now are fighting to be scythes

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In Scythe When the thunderhead takes control over the world besides the scythes they have to come up with ways to take people out of the world and this causes people to lose motivation for life throughout the book it almost gives us a look at if we never died and how the world would be and we get clues from this from rowan and citra both

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This book reminds me of the death penalty very heavily. Whether you agree with it or disagree with it this story shows both perspectives. I personally think that the thunderhead is a wonderful thing. It makes it as fair as the government could possibly be. But Scythes are awful and should not be a thing.

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Throughout the book "coming of age" is a very important theme. Not only are they getting older as people but they are also becoming wiser and better at what they do. Before this they really had no purpose but after becoming Scythe apprentices they realized their calling. And understood that they had grown older not only in appearance but in mind and career.

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Rowan used to get bullied when he was younger while in school and through this he has developed a different way of thinking which makes him put others before him like the kid he tried to save the kid but it doesn't end up working he then gets hired by scythe faraday and scythe faraday sees a lot in him that would make a good scythe

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Rowans school is like any other highschool just years into he future like they still have a star quarter back they care about their team in sports its all a normal highschool the on,y thing that sets it apart is the fact students get gleaned in the school in a back room in the office

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Scythe Faraday Vs. Self. He shows this by having to make a lot of hard decisions throughout the book. Things like who be his next apprentice, who he has to glean, and whether his life is worth more than his young apprentices or not. This ends up in him taking his own life enabling his apprentices to live on.

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Scythe Faraday's house is very simple. He lives in an extremely ordinary almost poverty level home. The only things that set it apart from a normal home would be his weapons din. Which is full of blades, guns, and poisons that he can use to glean the people of his criteria.

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Scythe Faraday is a very interesting man. He is somebody who I would describe as clever, empathetic, and organized. He shows this through his extensive planning and the criteria to find his victims. Other ways he shows these virtues include, his teachings, gleanings and how he lives his life. Before meeting him Citra and Rowan both hated scythes.

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The scythes hold a lot of power and must use it responsibly. Scythe Faraday and Scythe Curie represent how a scythe should be: compassionate and responsible. They understand they cause sorrow but use their empathy to moron and reflect on the loss. Scythe Curie, despite her power, has rules for herself. Scythe Faraday, Scythe Curie, and Scythe Goddard also show responsibility with Citra and Rowan.

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As the novel draws the reader deeper into the political divisions within the scythe organization and specifically, after Citra and Rowan are taken on by Scythe Curie and Scythe Goddard respectively, Scythe asks a number of questions about morality and human nature. By comparing the different licensed scythes and how they choose to train their apprentices, Scythe considers whether or not behaving morally and compassionately is something a person will do when there are few or no consequences for behaving otherwise, as well as what it even means to be compassionate in their line of work.

Prior to becoming apprentices, neither Citra nor Rowan think particularly highly of scythes. They generally find them cruel, unfeeling, and at times, not even especially human because their job is to kill others, something that Citra and Rowan don't find positive or moral. However, the scythe journal entries of Scythe Curie, which appear at the beginnings of most chapters, paint a different picture of what it means to be a good scythe in a moral sense. Curie meditates often on whether or not she's doing a good job and is compassionate enough to her victims and their families. When Scythe Faraday takes Citra and Rowan on as his apprentices, he confirms that, as far as he's concerned, Curie has the right idea: a good scythe is a compassionate scythe who doesn't think that killing people is good or right.

Both Scythe Curie and Scythe Faraday are meticulous in their methods, something that they believe allows them to be as compassionate as possible. Curie believes that gleaning should mimic death from the Age of Mortality, so she gives her victims no time to prepare-but then cooks her victims' families dinner the night after and provides them some closure. Faraday, on the other hand, diligently and empirically chooses his methods of killing as well as his victims, as he believes that people are all individuals and deserve to die in a way that aligns with who they are. He also attends every funeral for the people he gleans. This suggests that, as far as Faraday and Curie are concerned, compassion is something that comes with research and attention to detail. Essentially, it's something that they can develop when they take a keen interest in their victims and the victims' families, which in turn makes every death a personal, devastating experience for the scythe as well.

Following Scythe Faraday's (supposed) self-gleaning, after which Scythe Curie takes on Citra while Scythe Goddard takes over Rowan's training, Rowan discovers that not all scythes are as moral or as kind as Faraday was. While Citra continues to learn compassion first and foremost, Goddard, who is known for bloody, violent mass gleanings, teaches Rowan to enjoy killing and dehumanize his victims. Thanks to Rowan's innately compassionate personality as well as to his early training with Faraday, he's well aware that Goddard is turning him into a monster and a "killing machine," rather than a person performing a horrifying yet necessary service to humanity. The novel does imply, however, that despite Rowan's training and the awful things that Goddard makes him do, Rowan is able to maintain a sense of moral righteousness by choosing, at various points, to exercise his compassion and help potential victims of Goddard's crew escape. This creates the possibility that while a person's sense of morality is partially something innate and partially something learned, the true marker of morality is whether or not a person chooses to exercise his or her compassion-Rowan, after his training, admits in his inner monologue that he has become a monster and does enjoy killing, but he still chooses to ultimately use this transformation for good by gleaning Goddard and Goddard's cronies. Further, after becoming a scythe, Citra hears of a rogue, unordained scythe known as Scythe Lucifer-whom she knows is Rowan-who takes out corrupt scythes with what he learned from Goddard. With this, Scythe suggests that while anyone is capable of becoming a compassionless monster like Goddard, it's also possible for anyone to use the exact same skills and thought processes to create positive change in the world.

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Scythes have a lot of power and authority. Scythe Faraday references the abuse of power and emphasizes the importance of having principles. Scythe Goddard is a good example of corruption and greed. He gleans in mass and lives lavishly. He even uses his authority and people's desperation to live to get what he wants. This doesn't bother him but empowers him.

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In the world of Scythe, politics as they existed in the Age of Mortality no longer exist. Instead, the world is governed by the Thunderhead, a sentient, all-knowing, and reliably fair version of the modern-day "cloud." While the Thunderhead can perform any number of necessary tasks and services, like call for ambudrones, police infractions, and monitor the populace from its many cameras, it does have one blind spot: by design, it cannot watch, record, or catalogue data that has anything to do with scythes, who have a separate cloud-like system to record their goings-on. By setting up a swath of society that's effectively outside the realm of the law, Scythe makes the case that even in its ideal, utopian society, the corruption that the Thunderhead was supposed to prevent still runs rampant-and is even more difficult to stop from within.

When humanity came up with the idea to create the Scythedom, several hundred years before the start of the novel, it put rules in place to guide scythe behavior, while also insisting to the rest of humanity that scythes are unusually and incorruptibly just and moral. It also created the scythe organization to perform oversight functions in case of bad behavior. In the novel's present, however, it soon becomes clear that the oversight methods available for corrupt scythes are insufficient at best, and enable bad behavior at worst. While Scythe Goddard's penchant for mass gleanings isn't outside the law in any official sense, the way that he taunts and torments his victims is morally questionable-and yet, Goddard appears to be quickly gaining a following as he advocates for abolishing the quota and instead allowing scythes to glean as many people in a year as they want to. Especially when Rowan discovers the kind of cruel and inhumane person that Goddard is in private, this becomes a clear attempt to infuse the Scythedom with a lack of humanity and send it completely off the rails, bypassing the rules that were set up to check bloodthirsty scythes like Goddard.

Most importantly, Citra's suspicion that Scythe Faraday was murdered, rather than that he self-gleaned, suggests that even though this suspicion turns out to be incorrect, the Scythedom doesn't appear trustworthy or infallible to the young new scythes entering it. Instead, it appears cutthroat and like a battle between the cruel "new guard" scythes like Goddard and the compassionate "old guard" scythes like Faraday and Scythe Curie-and most importantly, not at all about actually overseeing scythe activity and promoting good habits and practices.

This sense that nobody can truly trust the Scythedom isn't an accident. Because the Thunderhead cannot observe scythes at any time, it creates a void in information that makes it impossible for anyone, scythe or otherwise, to monitor what is or isn't happening among scythes. The novel does show that despite its general ineffectiveness in this regard, the Thunderhead does want to do what it can to make the Scythedom more reliable. This is why, when Citra is deadish and therefore, technically not a part of the Scythedom, the Thunderhead wakes up a portion of her brain to give her a clue-Scythe Faraday's given name-so that she can put the pieces together and discover that he wasn't actually murdered, but is in hiding in Amazonia. This suggests to the reader and to Citra that while the Thunderhead and the Scythedom are, at first glance, impossible to use as a tool to police or use for unintended purposes, it's possible to get around the rules by capitalizing on technicalities and drawing on information from multiple sources in order to come to conclusions.

More importantly, however, this suggests that in a situation like the one Scythe sets up, carrying out justice and stamping out corruption is something that only individuals can do effectively. By showing how Scythe Goddard manipulates the High Blade as well as the entire Scythedom during the seasonal meetings, the novel makes it clear that the organization itself cannot do anything to check him-instead, the only person who can put a stop to Goddard's bloodlust is Rowan, an individual who feels duty bound to act outside of the system to place checks where the system itself cannot. The novel ends with one of Citra's first entries in her official scythe journal, in which she writes that she's heard of a mysterious figure whom people call Scythe Lucifer-Rowan-who takes out corrupt scythes. This final turn offers a suggestion for a two-pronged approach to fighting corruption. While Citra, as a licensed scythe trained by the old guard, can work from within the Scythedom to enforce rules and check any of Goddard's supporters, Rowan can work on the outside to shift the balance of power to scythes like Citra and Scythe Curie, who believe in justice and will do what they can to stamp out corruption. By working in this way and offering hope for a fairer future, the novel suggests that artificial intelligence like the Thunderhead can only go so far-it's necessary for people to do the work themselves to ensure balance, fairness, and justice.

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Rowan is more of a do er as sctyche faraday saw when he was gleaning the quarter back of their school Rowan went in there and held the kids hand so the scythe wouldn't glean him and was almost disagreeing with the sctyches showing he has no urge to be one but later on he shows he can make people feel comfortable even when they are about to die as Rowan showed to the man that was chosen by Rowan

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In Scythe, Midmerica is a region of Earth created by the Thunderhead. This region is the primary setting for the story. The capital of Midmerica, Fulcrum City, is where the main characters are located. It's believed to be in the Northwest of North America, extending from the Midwest of the United States towards Canada.

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MidMerica is a region of the Earth made by the Thunderhead after the Age of Mortality. It is the region that hosts most of the story. While the borders of MidMerica are never specifically delimited in the books, it is assumed that MidMerica runs north-to-south across the middle third of North Merica. It borders WestMerica to the West, EastMerica to the East, the Texas Charter Region to the South, and NorthernReach to the north.

The de facto capital of MidMerica is Fulcrum City, known in the Age of Mortality as St. Louis.

The Scythedom of MidMerica was a sect of the Scythedom operating over the region of MidMerica. Over the years, the MidMerican Scythedom hosted the beginnings of New Order ideals, largely promoted by the MidMerican Scythe Goddard. The MidMerican Scythedom, like the entire Scythedom, was dismantled after the ten plagues were released to take over the Scythedom's job.

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MidMerica is a region of the Earth made by the Thunderhead after the Age of Mortality. It is the region that hosts most of the story. While the borders of MidMerica are never specifically delimited in the books, it is assumed that MidMerica runs north-to-south across the middle third of North Merica.

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One of the main conflicts in Scythe is with Citra and Rowan, who must compete against each other for the role of Scythe. They face the challenge of navigating the moral complexities of being a Scythe along with their training. As they progress, the competition intensifies.

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Scythe By Neal Shusterman Maggie Grady 8.2 Summary Summary Scythe takes place far in the future where humanity has evolved past natural deaths. In the face of overpopulation, scythes are appointed to glean, or kill, hundreds of people each year. Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch

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Citra is a sharp character, quick to anger yet compassionate. Scythe Faraday believes she has two traits scythes must have; empathetic and headstrong. Initially, Citra hated scythes and could never align herself with them. Later, she learned how you can still be compassionate (while being a scythe) and she can protect her family.