Enter: Rowan Damisch and Citra Terranova, two teenagers chosen to become scythe apprentices. These people, the scythes, are typically chosen for their wisdom, compassion, and intelligence. In order to manage the size of the population, a group of people is tasked with the duty of killing, or “gleaning”, a certain amount of individuals every year. Like all dystopian novels, there is a catch. Even death has become a laughable relic of the mortal age - instead of dying, people are simply rendered “deadish” before being rushed to the hospital and quickly revived. Ruled by a sympathetic, powerful, and all-knowing technological entity called the Thunderhead, the world is devoid of religion, politics, war, and crime. The dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman explores a distant future where life is seemingly perfect.
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