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Book Summary: The Darkest Minds
In the Book the Darkest minds you come across many types of characters with different types of personality’s and powers. The main protagonist in the book is Ruby Elizabeth Day who is classified as an orange. Ruby is a girl who was ripped away from her parents at a very young when it was found out that she had the disease. Ruby in the group is the one that will risk anything in order to protect her friends. In many parts of the book she protects them from being captured and taken back to their camps. The second is Liam Stewart who is classified as a blue and meets Ruby during her run away from the children’s league. He meets Ruby and for some reason is immediately trusting of her and is ready to fight for her life just as he will for the other …show more content…
The main setting of this book takes place in Thurmond Camp reformatory for children with powers. This place is home to all children who have this disease and have contracted special powers from this. There are many camps were children are sent however Thurmond camp is said to be the worst one because of its cruel punishments and dangerous experimental treatments they inflict on children. The second place this book takes place is at the camp with the other children have seeking refuge with the leader the slip kid. This place is strictly kids only with specials powers and is able to live in peace and do not have to …show more content…
All children most go through a screening process to be identified which color or power they are. She knows even at a young age what she truly is orange is not a good thing in the camp because they are the ones treated on. She is able to get away undetected as an orange is labeled as a green which in the eyes of the guards and everyone else is not a threat. For many years she is able to on in the camp as a green. When she is sixteen years old after spending most of her life in the camp things change. She is rescued by someone who is with the children’s league. The children’s league is an organization that opposes the government that is putting these children in the horrible
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