Character Analysis: The College Enclave

The world is filled with bitter resentment and is waiting to stultify the people of the College Enclave at every step. The world is engulfed in horrible creatures known as Freaks. Everyone lives underground and they travel using tunnels or empty subways. A girl gains her name, Deuce, at her naming ceremony. Upon receiving her name, she also becomes a full-fledged huntress. She and her new partner, a renegade called Fade, are sent on a 5-day reconnaissance mission to find out why the Freaks are acting irregularly and what happened to the Nassau Enclave. They return with ancient relics, a possible new trade route, and information that the Freaks have overrun Nassau. I am reading Enclave by Ann Aguirre. In this journal I will be evaluating three objects and how they are important in representing the setting of the book. The objects are Deuce’s daggers, the old tin with paper in it, and the two of spades card. First, Deuce’s daggers are important to the setting. “That night, I honed my blade. I double—and triple—checked my equipment” (Aguirre 17). Weapon upkeep is expected of all hunters. The world is a dangerous place. You could be attacked at any time. You must always have your weapons honed and ready. If they aren’t sharp, then you may as well be running into danger buck-naked. The more time you spend working on …show more content…
The tin is a relic of a past generation. “The Wordkeeper growled as he took the document into evidence” (Aguirre 12). The first theme is that history is very important to their culture. They have laws in which keeping items from the past generation can lead to exile. Those items must be turned in to the Wordkeeper as soon as they are found. The second theme goes along with the first; nobody gets to keep things that they don’t need to do their tasks. An example is the tin being something that nobody needs, it’s from the past generation, and that it has to be turned in to the