Carson Grueber Mrs. Gonzales SAGE II 15 April 2024 Title Here In today’s society, many people seem to suffer due to the uncaring society and loneliness, as well as the questionable moral code that people must make up their minds on, like with killing. These issues are presented excellently by Neal Shusterman in his novel Scythe and Delia Owens in her novel Where The Crawdads Sing through the use of the protagonists of the stories, with Kya, a girl living alone in the marsh in Where The Crawdads Sing, and Citra from Scythe, a girl who is put on a path to becoming a person responsible for killing. In both Delia Owens’ Where The Crawdads Sing and Neal Shusterman’s Scythe, the authors display characters who are trapped, such as the main protagonists of the stories, Kya in Where The Crawdads Sing and Citra in Scythe.…show more content… Both Owens’ Where The Crawdads Sing and Shusterman’s Scythe utilize their protagonists, seeming trapped, in order to criticize society’s uncaring nature. Firstly, Kya in Owens’ novel faces discrimination for her situation, being poor and dirty, something that for the most part, she can’t help. This is most prevalent in Owens’ novel when Kya’s Pa takes her to a restaurant, where a mother there prevents her daughter from being too close to Kya because “she’s dirty” and ridicules her, saying that Kya is “filthy”. Plumb nasty” (Owens
