#6 - Text-to-Text Connections

There are many text-to-text connections: 

Like Great Gatsby, the main character isn't as vibrant a character, but he's telling the story from the background, watching everything. 

It connects to The 100 in the way they harvest bone marrow. They both start with willing volunteers. In The 100, they need the marrow to help protect them from radiation. In both, the volunteers aren't enough to supply people, and they end up hunting and kidnapping people and draining them in warehouses. 

It connects to The Walking Dead and to Zombieland in that it's a group of strangers who have joined together to travel and protect each other. Everybody is trying to find the safe place that they've all heard of, but nobody's really seen. That potential of an idyllic paradise also appears in I Am Legend and in Birdbox. 

The scene with the moose is very much like How to Train Your Dragon, when Hiccup is about to shoot Toothless, but decides to help him instead. 

The book also reminds me of Sorrow's Knot, by Erin Bow, in the description of clothing and jingles, like the ones Minerva makes. 

Finally, they sing songs that are like the spirituals sung by enslaved people that we sang in our music class:

Way ya, hey ya, hey ya, way ha 

I don't know where we're going

Don't know where we've been

Way hey ya

All I know is I'll keep walking

Can't get taken in

Way hey ya. (Dimaline, 36)

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Works Cited

Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves. Manitoba: Cormorant Books Inc., 2018.