This book begins with telling us about the future the book is placed in. What we know as the "Cloud" currently has grown and become self aware (the story doesn’t explain how though), therefore humanity has named it the "Thunderhead". It has helped us develop a cure for death since it is all knowing, so everyone is now immortal. As people get older, they will go and “turn the corner” so that they look as young as 20.
Since people can’t die by natural causes the world was getting overpopulated So, the Scythes were created. An organization completely independent of the government (which is now just the Thunderhead, Scythes alone have the power to kill (or “Gleaning” as they like to call it referring to the medieval era when poor people would …show more content…
He trains them for a few months then they go to the meeting of scythes which happens twice a year. At the meeting Rowan and Citra find out that only one of them can become a scythe and they have to glean the other. Outraged they and their scythe leave the meeting. Later in the story their scythe gleans himself therefor releasing Citra and Rowan from his custody, but they get taken on by two very different scythes and since the scythes already agreed on it still law only one can become a scythe and the other gets gleaned.
They keep training until the next meeting where they get tested, and again train until the meeting after that where one will get gleaned and the other will become a scythe. After the final test it is decreed that Citra will become the scythe and have to glean Rowan. Citra gets her ring and robe and is about to glean Rowan when suddenly she punches him with her ring on and some of his blood gets on her ring granting him immunity. Rowan precedes to escape before the scythes can put him in prison.
Rowan then becomes a vigilante who gleans scythes Who glean because of prejudice or who enjoy gleaning and act like it’s a sport, and Citra becomes a well respected scythe who prefers to glean painlessly and
Since people can’t die by natural causes the world was getting overpopulated So, the Scythes were created. An organization completely independent of the government (which is now just the Thunderhead, Scythes alone have the power to kill (or “Gleaning” as they like to call it referring to the medieval era when poor people would …show more content…
He trains them for a few months then they go to the meeting of scythes which happens twice a year. At the meeting Rowan and Citra find out that only one of them can become a scythe and they have to glean the other. Outraged they and their scythe leave the meeting. Later in the story their scythe gleans himself therefor releasing Citra and Rowan from his custody, but they get taken on by two very different scythes and since the scythes already agreed on it still law only one can become a scythe and the other gets gleaned.
They keep training until the next meeting where they get tested, and again train until the meeting after that where one will get gleaned and the other will become a scythe. After the final test it is decreed that Citra will become the scythe and have to glean Rowan. Citra gets her ring and robe and is about to glean Rowan when suddenly she punches him with her ring on and some of his blood gets on her ring granting him immunity. Rowan precedes to escape before the scythes can put him in prison.
Rowan then becomes a vigilante who gleans scythes Who glean because of prejudice or who enjoy gleaning and act like it’s a sport, and Citra becomes a well respected scythe who prefers to glean painlessly and