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* HardTruthAesop:
** NatureIsNotNice. If you want to reconnect to your primal roots, great, it'll probably be good for you... but part of that is reconnecting to the necessity of survival.
** Community is indeed one of our most powerful assets, but true community is based on mutual need, not on some fuzzy notion of intrinsic human value. If you want your neighbors to help you, figure out a way to be useful to them in return.
** NatureIsNotNice. If you want to reconnect to your primal roots, great, it'll probably be good for you... but part of that is reconnecting to the necessity of survival.
** Community is indeed one of our most powerful assets, but true community is based on mutual need, not on some fuzzy notion of intrinsic human value. If you want your neighbors to help you, figure out a way to be useful to them in return.
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* TooProudForLowlyWork: An extreme case of this is implied to be why Tony and Yvette hide away from everyone else (aside from SanitySlippage). Both believe they are too good to do any kind of manual work and detest having to take orders from Mostar, who has become the camp's de facto leader. Dr. Reinhardt has no survival skills either, and resents having to learn how to do anything.
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* TheUnmasquedWorld: The government has collected every scrap of evidence from the ruins of Greenloop, as would be standard for a cover-up, but the park ranger, Josephine Schell, points out that the official investigation is still ongoing, no serious attempts at censorship are being made, and they haven't even bothered with a [[GasLeakCoverUp believable cover story]] for Greenloop's destruction. She believes that they're planning to cash in on the fact that Sasquatches are real and are simply waiting for people to regain some sense of normalcy before going public.
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* TheUnmasquedWorld: The government has collected every scrap of evidence from the ruins of Greenloop, as would be standard for a cover-up, but the park ranger, Josephine Schell, points out that the official investigation is still ongoing, no serious attempts at censorship are being made, and they haven't even bothered with a [[GasLeakCoverUp believable cover story]] for Greenloop's destruction.destruction (something particularly glaring since it's a town that was literally destroyed only a few hundred miles from what was apparently one of the most severe volcanic eruptions ever). She believes that they're planning to cash in on the fact that Sasquatches are real and are simply waiting for people to regain some sense of normalcy before going public.
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* AbortedArc: There are some pretty heavy implications early in the book that Carmen is ''at least'' emotionally abusive to her wife, as Effie is cripplingly shy while Carmen always gets her own way and talks over Effie constantly, with some lighter inferences about physical abuse. This is quickly forgotten.
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* AbortedArc: There are some pretty heavy implications early in the book that Carmen is ''at least'' emotionally abusive to her wife, as Effie is cripplingly shy while Carmen always gets her own way and talks over Effie constantly, with some lighter inferences about physical abuse. This is quickly forgotten.forgotten (though largely because it turns out that everyone ends up having much bigger fish to fry).
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* NoodleIncident: There is apparently a serious disaster movie happening off-screen during the events of the novel, involving Mount Rainer erupting apocalyptically, Tacoma being destroyed, Seattle being placed under martial law, and some sniper going crazy and picking people off on top of everything. Outside of the occasional article or headline, however, the novel acts like the reader would be familiar with all that. Justified, since all this serves to show just how cut-off and isolated from the wider world the main characters have become.
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* NewscasterCameo: Two radio newscasters, Creator/{{NPR}} Anchor Terri Gross and ''Marketplace'' host Kai Ryssdal appear in asides where they interview characters prior to the events of the novel; both appear [[AsHimself As Themselves]] in the audiobook.
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* BladeOnAStick: Mostar and Kate improvise a variety of spears and javelins from stalks of bamboo and the village's collection of kitchen knives, including a makeshift Zulu ''iklwa''.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Mostar and Kate improvise a variety of spears and javelins from stalks of bamboo and the village's collection of kitchen knives, including a makeshift Zulu ''iklwa''.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: Just after Vincent cheerfully responds to the Sasquatches' wood-knocking and the Greenloop residents assume they created a friendly bond, Schell drops this in the next excerpt that turns the situation FromBadtoWorse:]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Schell:'''And for all we know, wood knocking denotes a challenge, which Vincent Boothe unwittingly accepted.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: Just after Vincent cheerfully responds to the Sasquatches' wood-knocking and the Greenloop residents assume they created a friendly bond, Schell drops this comment in the next excerpt that turns the situation FromBadtoWorse:]]
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--> [[spoiler:'''Schell:'''And '''Schell:''' And for all we know, wood knocking denotes a challenge, which Vincent Boothe unwittingly accepted.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Katie's journal ends after recounting the FinalBattle with the Sasquatches, and she and Palomino were gone by the time a rescue team found the ruins of Greenloop. As such, there's no concrete evidence about what happened to them, leading to in-universe speculation and multiple theories about their fates, none of which are confirmed.]]
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* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Frank speculates that the Sasquatches' ancestors hunted primitive humans, until the latter developed enough intellect to start hunting them back, driving them into hiding in the wilderness; he figures that finding the isolated community in Greenloop while starving triggered an instinct in the troop to start hunting humans again. [[spoiler: He also chooses to believe that Katie and Palomino have once again reversed things, and are now hunting the remaining Sasquatches.]]
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* TitleDrop: Frank uses the term "devolution" to describe his theory of the Sasquatches instinctually reverting to an ancient mindset of hunting humans when they stumbled onto Greenloop.
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--> [[spoiler: '''Schell:'''And for all we know, wood knocking denotes a challenge, which Vincent Boothe unwittingly accepted.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Yvette initially presents herself as a kind and caring TeamMom to the rest of Greenloop. Beneath the facade, she's a passive-aggressive ControlFreak and EntitledObnoxiousHousewife who tries to bully Mostar into obeying her.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Yvette initially presents herself as a kind and caring TeamMom to the rest of Greenloop. Beneath the facade, she's a passive-aggressive ControlFreak and EntitledObnoxiousHousewife ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife who tries to bully Mostar into obeying her.
