The Declaration
What type of figurative language is "A little butterfly, trapped in a cold, grey prison?"
A metaphor
What does Sheila steal?
A pair of knickers
What does "A little butterfly, trapped in a cold, grey prison?"
that Anna is the butterfly trapped in Grange Hall
What is Longevity+?
where is uses young stem-cells, burns fat, and makes your outsides look younger
Who is Ben?
Anna's little brother who made the catchers find them by crying
Who are the Covey's?
Anna's parents who were in jail for having her but then released a few years later.
Who is Tania?
Girl bully Surplus at Grange Hall
Where are surpluses sent in London?
Grange Hall
Where does Anna keep her journal?
In a cavity in the wall behind the bathtub in Female Bathroom 2.
Who is Peter?
Pending boy that comes to Grange Hall to rescue Anna and turns out to be Mrs. Pincent's son
What does Mrs. Pincent do to her husband at the end of the book?
Mrs. Pincent kills her husband so her son, Peter, can become a legal.
How do Anna and Peter get to London?
Mrs. Sharpe was driving them but then she found out that the Authorities were searching cars, and so Peter and Anna walked the rest of the way.
Are Anna and Peter related?
No, her parents adopted Peter into their family.
Does the government only brainwash the surpluses?
No, the government brainwashes Legals also into believing that they are better than Surpluses and that Surpluses deserve to die, except for the ones that clean their houses, and that keeping everyone old is better than having new life.
How did Anna feel about Peter at first?
She thought Peter was annoying and didn't know his place
What three things are Stephen allowed that make Mrs. Pincent want to marry him?
Sign the Declaration, take Longevity drugs, and have one child.
Can catchers torture legals?
Technically, Catchers are not bound by law, and so they have different "Guidelines" than just the regular police, meaning that they are allowed to do whatever they want to get the information they need.
What happens when Anna and Peter are hiding in the summer house?
The Catchers come to search the summer house, but Mrs. Sharpe can't find the key, but she lies and says that her husband had taken it for safe keeping.
What are The Authorities?
The Government.
Who is Mrs. Pincent?
The House Matron of Grange Hall that turns out to be Peter's mother
Who is Mrs. Sharpe?
The Legal woman that Anna had worked for for a while, and also had tried to help Anna and Peter escape, but in the end, gave in to the Catchers
Who is Mr. Sargent?
The Science and Nature teacher at Grange Hall
Who is Charlie?
The boy bully Surplus at Grange Hall
Who is Dr. Cox?
The doctor that was going to put down Peter
Who is Maisie?
The domestic that discovered that Peter and Anna were missing from solitary
Who is Anna?
The main character, Surplus at Grange Hall, escapes with Peter.
Who are the Parkinsons?
The neighbors that tell the Catchers the Coveys' house number
Who are Frank and Bill?
The two catchers that try to get Peter and Anna after they escape
What is Longevity?
a pill where legals take to live forver
What is Grange Hall?
a place where the surpluses go to work and taught to be useful
Who is Patrick?
a surplus that came in later and cried the whole time so he was sent to a "detention center"
Who is Sheila?
a surplus that's actually legal. she gets Anna's journal and outs her to Mrs. Pincent
