Zed’s words and actions have a lasting impact on both Carly May (aka Chloe) and Lois this shows us how much Zed means to both girls. The first mention of Zed as the kidnapper was when Chloe says, “I belong on the stage. Zed told me so, and I knew right away it was true” (Mitchell 17). This example shows how much Zed’s words lasted on Chloe, she thinks of Zed as being the person who knows her the best. She knows as soon as he says it this is the truth and must happen even though many others think of her as too pretty for the stage she knows that it is where she belongs because Zed told her so. Another Example of the pull that Zed has on the girls can be seem when Lois states “he who could read our minds, who could lay them bare to us and to each other” (Mitchell 80).
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Another example of Lois reflecting on Zed is when she explains, “You are the sun… we’ve been orbiting an absence, a mystery, an unnamed threat, Chloe and I” (Mitchell 302). This refers back to the times when Carly May and Lois where with Zed in the cabin. At one point Zed tells Lois a new word “syzygy” which “refers to the alignment of three celestial bodies” (Mitchell 217). Through this, the girls begin to align their selves like that of a solar system Zed being the Sun, Lois the moon, and Carly May the Earth. When Lois refers as Zed as the “sun…we’ve been orbiting an absence” (Mitchell 302), she is referring to this times when the three of them where together happy, but know with his absence there is a whole in the system that causes a whole in both girls hearts. Then at the very end of the book, both girls reflect on Zed. Lois refers back to him unlike she has before saying, “He was quite selfish in a way”, where Chloe retorts “’Yeah’…‘just a little selfish. He never meant to break our hearts’” (Mitchell 304). This tells us that the girls had actually fallen in love with
Another example of Lois reflecting on Zed is when she explains, “You are the sun… we’ve been orbiting an absence, a mystery, an unnamed threat, Chloe and I” (Mitchell 302). This refers back to the times when Carly May and Lois where with Zed in the cabin. At one point Zed tells Lois a new word “syzygy” which “refers to the alignment of three celestial bodies” (Mitchell 217). Through this, the girls begin to align their selves like that of a solar system Zed being the Sun, Lois the moon, and Carly May the Earth. When Lois refers as Zed as the “sun…we’ve been orbiting an absence” (Mitchell 302), she is referring to this times when the three of them where together happy, but know with his absence there is a whole in the system that causes a whole in both girls hearts. Then at the very end of the book, both girls reflect on Zed. Lois refers back to him unlike she has before saying, “He was quite selfish in a way”, where Chloe retorts “’Yeah’…‘just a little selfish. He never meant to break our hearts’” (Mitchell 304). This tells us that the girls had actually fallen in love with