The Final Community's Basis off Lauren's Childhood

 At the end of the novel, a community forms after Lauren and her group escape safely to the North. They say that they will have to fight anyone who tries to endanger them because it is either going to be "them or us" that survives. This reminds me of far earlier in the novel when Lauren's father says that he has the create the armed patrol in order to fight off the robbers because it's either them or us that are going to survive. The parallelism shows how Lauren's traumatic childhood shapes her views for her utopia going forwards.

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