- When she is having a conversation with Joanne her best friend she is “talking about the day a big gang of those hungry desperate people outside decide to come in….it’s going to happen someday”(Butler pg. 55).
- She was able to look past her community's superficial sense of protection behind the wall and knows that it will come down.
- She develops Earthseed and goes against her whole entire community's religion and her father who she admires the most in the novel.
Lauren's utilization of her leadership skill is how she is able to find a safe haven.
- Lauren possess a good sense of judgment. Early on in the novel she realizes that they will need allies.
- When they are at the beach they run into the Douglas’; Lauren wants to ask them to join the group but when Harry argues that they do not need allies she points out that “we’d be damned fools to wait and try to get them when we do need them. By then they might not be around.”(Butler pg. 207).
- He is desperate to be considered a man.
- “He wants a gun..the way thirsty people want water. He wants to be grown up-yesterday”(Butler pg.81). Keith desires to prove his manhood but goes about it the wrong way.
- . He thinks that if he has a gun that he has all the power in the world and that he cannot be defeated, however, it is childish to think this way. He is just like a modern boy today who thinks that because they have a weapon in hand that they are invincible.
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