Humphrey Dunfee
Can't Make an Omelet without Breaking a Few TeenagersHumphrey Dunfee is an urban legend intended to scare kids (think: Candyman or the witch's uvula). It's first mentioned in Chapter 7, as if kids...
Hope
A Thing with Feathers (Plucked Off)There are four major mentions of hope in this book, which is a lot in a world where children are fated to die. Each of our main characters gets at least one menti...
The Shark Tattoo
Shark Tank The shark tattoo is appropriate for Roland, a person who is always on the move looking for prey, as though if he stopped, he would die. But Roland is stopped when he's unwound, and his a...