Emma Clayton’s London is a two-tiered society. In what ways does her fictional world mirror the real world? Cite examples from the text to support your argument.

Mika and Ellie share a deep emotional and psychic bond. How does this bond manifest itself and how does it relate to The Interconnectedness of the Natural World? Cite examples from the text to support your argument.

Why are the adults in Clayton’s novel so much quicker than the children to believe the government’s lie about The Plague? In what ways could that tendency be generational? In what ways does it conform to the requirements of the genre?