One Of The Many Things That Make Me Insane About The Chaos Walking Books Are The Parallels Between The

One of the many things that make me insane about the chaos walking books are the parallels between the characters. I could talk about them for DAYS. Viola and Mistress Coyle. Todd and Mayor Prentiss. Mayor Prentiss and Mistress Coyle. Davy and Todd. The return and Todd. Ben and Mayor Prentiss. The Sky and the Return. The Sky and the Return and the Mayor and Todd and so on and so forth until you combust.

Some of these specifically keep me up at night. The Sky telling the Return "you have no father, I have no son , we should totally be a found family" and the mayor constantly telling Todd that he's proud of him , that they are connected, forcing this bond between them , forcing him into the role of his son while the Sky asks, the mayor creating this test where to become part of the men of Pressintown you have to kill someone while the Sky's test is not to kill, to be able to show mercy, let go of anger to join the Land. Either way both Todd and The Return find themselves unable to kill, they are both angry and broken and Todd does hate Aaron and seek vengence just like The Return hates Todd but in the end they can't kill. but then there's Todd killing a spackle with a knife and The Return unable to stab Ben but he kinda kills Todd with a rifle while Todd purposefully doesn't shoot any spackle with his rifle during the first fight of the war And and and both the mayor and the sky die but while the Sky's memory is treasured and the Return is proud to follow in his footsteps Todd will never become like the Mayor ( who is only remembered as a horror story I hope )

There's so many characters mirroring each other it's insaneeee like mistress coyle and the mayor who both believe they are so high and mighty and so different but when it comes down to it they are both deranged fucking people obsessed with control. They go about it in different ways , one a murderer and the other a terrorist, they make sides and they fight and he poisons people and she's a healer but when it comes down to it she almost blows viola up with a bomb while the mayor saves Todd's life countless times. They are so obsessed with power and control that when they see it getting permanently out of their reach they kill themselves. She , "the martyr", "the voice of the people", goes out with a bomb while him "the president of the world", "the general", tries to leave behind countless deaths in a war he designed to have no winners. THEY ARE FUCKING INSANE YOUR HONOR "(if she wins) you'd be swapping one tyrant for another" YEAH WE NOTICED and and and do you see how they're unstoppable forces ?? The only reason they are defeated is because they defeat themselves!! No one else in the whole new world could have stopped them otherwise!!! AND did you guys notice how they were such better people in the past?? Mistress Coyle helping the protagonists of The wide open sea and Todd's mom describing the Mayor as a good man at the beginning of her journal??? But then power got to them , the need for control made them such horrible people

hello??*reaches through the screen to shake you* CAN YOU HEAR ME ?? Am I onto nothing???

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THIS ISNT REAL

Andrew Minyard passively saw his long lost brother watch a medical tv show and say 'I want to do that' while his abusive mum laughed and dismissed him and he said to himself I will get you into med school. You will do that. AND HE DID.

Gotta love those characters that you hated from the beginning but turn out to be one of your favorites bc of how complex and simply human they are and everything is all grey instead of black and white and they are just a product of their upbringing and that doesn’t excuse their actions but you understand them and they understand their own mistakes and regret them enough to spend their dying moments unburdening themselves with the truth and begging for forgiveness and it’s sad because you don’t know if they will ever really be at peace after being betrayed by the only two people they cared about and all they ever wanted was to be good enough and to be loved and to be respected and it cost them their life

What is your opinion on pines

*quick Google search to see if I'm missing something* *apparently I'm not*

Pines are cool! They are tough guys who stay green even during winter!! Very badass of them

Only beef I could have with pines comes from a time when I was little and excited about going to buy candies , so much that I was not looking in front of me while walking and when I turned around I slammed my head on a pine so hard that I still have a little scar on my forehead. But after a lot of time and meditation I understood that it wasn't the tree fault so I have decided to carry no hate in my heart towards him and his brothers.

They are definitely not my favorites tho, that role is reserved to the weeping willow for sure. It's so dramatic??? It has such a pretty name that flows so smoothly?? It looks like it belongs in a fairytale?? It's a tree and yet it cries?? 10/10 , the emoest,littlest and wettest meow meow out of all the trees I know