Roth also unfolds the theme using her characters’ traits and developments. In the first character I’d like to elaborate on, Cyra, you can easily see her distrust. As I explained previously, she readily trusted Ryzek, but that didn’t end well for her, as it turned her into “Ryzek’s Scourge.” Following when Ryzek switched a happy memory of Cyra and her mother with a horrible one where Ryzek was commanded to order the execution of another man, Roth writes, “‘Cyra,’ Ryz said. Tears stained his cheeks. ‘It’s only fair. It’s only fair that we should share this burden.’ He reached for me again. Something deep inside me burned. As his hand found my cheek, dark, inky veins spread beneath my skin like many-legged insects, like webs of shadow. They moved,
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I screamed, louder than I had ever screamed in my life, and Ryz’s voice joined mine, almost in harmony. The dark veins had brought pain; the darkness was a pain, and I was made of it, I was pain itself. He yanked his hand away, but the skin-shadows and the agony stayed, my current gift beckoned forward too soon,” (Roth 50) This illustrates the fact that Ryzek abused Cyra;s trust by showing that when Cyra allowed Ryzek to trade her memory without knowing what was happening, it caused her current gift, the ability to give others and herself pain, to form when she was young. Due to this ability, people feared her and she began to distrust everyone. However, she comes to trust Akos and is thus able to capture Ryzek in the end of the novel with the Renegades’ help. The Renegades are another set of characters that Roth uses to prove her …show more content…
‘You’re desperate, and so am I,’ I said. ‘Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.’ … ‘I’ll see what I can do,’ she said,” (Roth 244) indicates that the Renegades decided to help Cyra, as Teka, the Renegade with whom Cyra was speaking, told Cyra “I’ll see what I can do,” (Roth 244). This half-trust formed turned out to be beneficial to the Renegades. Cyra became a useful ally in the mission to remove Akos and kill Ryzek, although it failed. “I knew all the codes Ryzek liked to use, and beyond that, the most secure doors were locked with a gene code -- part of the system Ryzek had installed after our parents died. I was the only one left who shared Ryzek’s genes. My blood could get them wherever they wanted to go...‘You’re asking me to participate in the assassination of my brother.’ ‘Does that bother you?’ Tos said. ‘No,’ I replied. ‘Not anymore,’” (Roth 279) demonstrates Cyra’s usefulness because she is a) able to unlock the doors and b) she can easily help with the assassination of Ryzek. From this evidence, you can see that the characters verify the theme because each of the characters distrusted each other, but by learning to trust, they accomplished their
I screamed, louder than I had ever screamed in my life, and Ryz’s voice joined mine, almost in harmony. The dark veins had brought pain; the darkness was a pain, and I was made of it, I was pain itself. He yanked his hand away, but the skin-shadows and the agony stayed, my current gift beckoned forward too soon,” (Roth 50) This illustrates the fact that Ryzek abused Cyra;s trust by showing that when Cyra allowed Ryzek to trade her memory without knowing what was happening, it caused her current gift, the ability to give others and herself pain, to form when she was young. Due to this ability, people feared her and she began to distrust everyone. However, she comes to trust Akos and is thus able to capture Ryzek in the end of the novel with the Renegades’ help. The Renegades are another set of characters that Roth uses to prove her …show more content…
‘You’re desperate, and so am I,’ I said. ‘Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.’ … ‘I’ll see what I can do,’ she said,” (Roth 244) indicates that the Renegades decided to help Cyra, as Teka, the Renegade with whom Cyra was speaking, told Cyra “I’ll see what I can do,” (Roth 244). This half-trust formed turned out to be beneficial to the Renegades. Cyra became a useful ally in the mission to remove Akos and kill Ryzek, although it failed. “I knew all the codes Ryzek liked to use, and beyond that, the most secure doors were locked with a gene code -- part of the system Ryzek had installed after our parents died. I was the only one left who shared Ryzek’s genes. My blood could get them wherever they wanted to go...‘You’re asking me to participate in the assassination of my brother.’ ‘Does that bother you?’ Tos said. ‘No,’ I replied. ‘Not anymore,’” (Roth 279) demonstrates Cyra’s usefulness because she is a) able to unlock the doors and b) she can easily help with the assassination of Ryzek. From this evidence, you can see that the characters verify the theme because each of the characters distrusted each other, but by learning to trust, they accomplished their