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About This Passage
This passage is doing something gentle and important. It tells us that Bianca's final brave act was not a CHANGE in who she was — it was the SAME person, finally able to act from her own choosing instead of from obligation. Notice how the writer uses the same idea (choosing other people first) to describe both Bianca's old life caring for Nico and her new act as a Hunter. The passage is saying that bravery and care are not opposites — they are the same impulse pointed in two different directions. Bianca did not become brave by joining the Hunters. She had been brave all along. The Hunters just gave her a chance to be brave on terms she had finally chosen for herself.
Bianca had been a Hunter for only a few weeks when she was asked to do something a Hunter twice her age would have hesitated to do. She did not hesitate. She had spent her life choosing other people f...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
In your own words, tell the story of this chapter. What were the most important moments? What made them important — and how do you know?
Discussion Questions
- The chapter says Bianca's bravery in her final act was the SAME bravery she had always shown for Nico — that joining the Hunters had not changed her. Is this true, or did joining the Hunters give her something she could not have had at home? What is the difference between a person being CHANGED and a person being given a chance to ACT on who they already were?
- Bianca chose to take a deadly risk for her friends only weeks after finally choosing something for herself. Is this evidence that her self-choice was a mistake (she could have lived longer and chosen better lives if she had not been there), or evidence that her self-choice was right (because it gave her the chance to die as the person she wanted to be)?
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Vocabulary Builder
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Giving up something important — sometimes life itself — so that others can have what they need
Item 2
The deep weight of feeling that comes after losing someone you loved
Item 3
Something passed from one person to another, often a responsibility rather than a thing
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