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The Book of Joan
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The Book of Joan is a poetic, philosophical dystopian novel by acclaimed author Lidia Yuknavitch, published in 2017. It was a National Bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the year.In the near future, the Earth is a barren battleground, ravaged by global warfare, and what is left of humanity has fled to CIEL, an orbiting satellite controlled by the totalitarian leader Jean de Men. Life among the stars has not proved to be the heavenly ascension that was promised, however, and isolated from the Earth's energy, evolution has inverted itself on humanity, who have become colorless, sexless, nearly lifeless shells, inscribing scar-pattern stories onto their skin.But years ago, before the ascension, there was a girl. This girl became a warrior, and the warrior became a woman, and the woman became the final beacon of hope to a desperate resistance, and her name was Joan. Joan of Dirt, as the enemy called her. She was captured, of course, branded an eco-terrorist and publicly executed by the arcane method of burning at the stake, and with her, it was thought, died her story. But now Christine, a scholar and dissident artist nearing her fiftieth birthday—the limit of life for CIELers—has a song stuck in her head. And that song is only the beginning.The Book of Joan transforms the dystopia genre, reimagining the Joan of Arc story and the story of life everywhere in a paradigm undefined by masculine-dominated narratives. It asks, what if we are not creatures of light and air, driven ever upwards by our manifest destinies? What if, instead, we are matter—by and of the Earth? And what happens when that connection is restored to us? | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
| The Book of Joan / int_161f1ebf | comment |
Relationship Upgrade: Joan and Leone's Big Damn Kiss. | |
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Mandatory Motherhood | |
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Mandatory Motherhood: Joan is the last woman alive who has not lost her sex characteristics and reproductive capabilities. Jean de Men intends to kidnap her and use her as a Baby Factory. | |
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The Cynic | |
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The Cynic: Both Christine and Joan, downplayed. They don't believe that humanity is inherently evil, but they do believe it to be beyond saving. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Joan admires Leone for her extreme stoicism. | |
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Adam and Eve Plot | |
| The Book of Joan / int_1e95dd12 | comment |
Adam and Eve Plot: Deconstructed. Joan eventually realizes she can use her body not only for destruction, but for creation, sacrificing herself to give rise to a new generation on Earth. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The spider Christine notices in the first chapter returns to play a vital role in communication between Christine and Trinculo. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_231e8193 | type |
Mistaken Identity | |
| The Book of Joan / int_231e8193 | comment |
Mistaken Identity: Played for Drama. Jean de Men kidnaps Leone, initially believing her to be Joan herself. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: Of Science Fiction and Dystopia. It hits most of the same points, but almost always from an entirely new angle. | |
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Hurl It into the Sun | |
| The Book of Joan / int_24b93b2 | comment |
Hurl It into the Sun: In the end, Christine sets CIEL on a course that will send it and all the dregs of humanity it contains into the sun. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_2504772e | type |
Walking Spoiler | |
| The Book of Joan / int_2504772e | comment |
Walking Spoiler: Joan, who we don't learn is still alive until the end of Part 1. | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better | |
| The Book of Joan / int_26d48b37 | comment |
Earth That Used to Be Better: Decades of warfare and a vaguely defined eco-apocalypse have left the planet barren and lifeless, save for its deepest caves. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_26f41623 | type |
Kill Sat | |
| The Book of Joan / int_26f41623 | comment |
Kill Sat: CIEL can function as one, zapping those on the ground with bolts of energy. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_27a036db | type |
Covered with Scars | |
| The Book of Joan / int_27a036db | comment |
Covered with Scars: On CIEL, the dominant form of literature is scarification—burning patterns and pictographs onto one's skin to tell stories. As a result, most residents of CIEL are covered in scar tissue—some areas burned over so many times they have grown into headtails or other grotesque shapes. Joan is covered in burn scars from her attempted execution. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
| The Book of Joan / int_29292e6d | comment |
Walking the Earth: Joan and Leone have spent the decades after the ascension traveling the ravaged Earth, moving between the caves that house the last remaining life on the planet. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_2d409194 | type |
Unsettling Gender-Reveal | |
| The Book of Joan / int_2d409194 | comment |
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Exaggerated. Nyx undoes their skirt for Joan, revealing the hideous attempts at genital recreation wrought there by Jean de Men. This serves as the turning point for Joan in convincing her to rejoin the fight. In the climactic scene, Jean de Men's robe is torn away, revealing that he has actually been a woman all along. | |
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Second Coming | |
| The Book of Joan / int_2e3a46ba | comment |
Second Coming: Played with. Joan is not dead as she is purported to be, but she has no desire to take up the mantle again and destroy CIEL—until Leone is captured by Jean de Men. | |
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Moustache de Plume | |
| The Book of Joan / int_30bda262 | comment |
Moustache de Plume: Jean de Men has been masquerading as a man for decades, perhaps so that his works of "literature" would be taken more seriously. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_30d71ee | type |
Flaying Alive | |
| The Book of Joan / int_30d71ee | comment |
Flaying Alive: This is done to Trinculo as punishment for his repeated infractions. He somehow stays alive through and after the procedure, until the end of the book. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_34dd5f3 | type |
La Résistance | |
| The Book of Joan / int_34dd5f3 | comment |
La Résistance: Joan became a rebel leader, fighting against Jean de Men. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_34e89418 | type |
A Birthday, Not a Break | |
| The Book of Joan / int_34e89418 | comment |
A Birthday, Not a Break: Christine's resistance's attack on Jean de Men occurs on her fiftieth birthday, the last day of her life. It goes unmentioned until Trinculo brings it up, as they and all of CIEL are hurtling towards the sun. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_352def2a | type |
Burn the Witch! | |
| The Book of Joan / int_352def2a | comment |
Joan is covered in burn scars from her attempted execution. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_3b39c254 | type |
Dystopia | |
| The Book of Joan / int_3b39c254 | comment |
Dystopia: CIEL, the False Utopia where only the rich could afford to retreat from the dying world below, ruled by an autocrat and strictly forbidding of unorthodox expression. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| The Book of Joan / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Most of the cast is dead, with CIEL incinerated and most of humanity along with it, but Joan has given her body to rejuvinate the Earth, and Jean de Men has been defeated. | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
| The Book of Joan / int_4510b368 | comment |
Ambiguous Gender: Nyx, Christine's first disciple, has No Biological Sex like all residents of CIEL. Christine assumes they are a young woman, but Joan treats them as gender-neutral. | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means | |
| The Book of Joan / int_45fe3a2e | comment |
Utopia Justifies the Means: Jean de Men believes a clean, heavenly existence among the stars is the ultimate apotheosis of humanity . . . and is willing to use propaganda, torture, and global genocide to achieve that goal. | |
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Allegory | |
| The Book of Joan / int_471c46f8 | comment |
Allegory: The subplot involving Jean de Men's desire to use Joan as a Baby Factory can easily be read as a pro-choice argument. | |
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No Biological Sex | |
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No Biological Sex: All humans except Joan have devolved to this point. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
| The Book of Joan / int_49f6a9e4 | comment |
Most Writers Are Writers: Christine is a literary critic and author. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| The Book of Joan / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Since physicality and the human body are possibly the book's Central Theme, this abounds. The layers of scar tissue built up from repeated and overlapping skin grafts on the wealthier CIEL residents produces grotesque deformations resembling anything from headtails to long, imperial sleeves. The sexless, colorless devolved state of the humans on CIEL itself. Jean de Men's fertility experiments, which have involved the creation of artificial genitalia, among other monstrosities. Joan fully remembers the sensation of being burned alive. In the climactic scene, Jean de Men pulls out Leone's reproductive tract and eats it. | |
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Everyone Is Bi | |
| The Book of Joan / int_5067fd81 | comment |
Everyone Is Bi: The disappearance of sex and gender characteristics has muddied the line of sexual attraction for everyone, and Christine, Trinculo, and Joan all show attraction to both men and women. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_56b53152 | type |
Green Aesop | |
| The Book of Joan / int_56b53152 | comment |
Green Aesop: Humanity's ruthless exploitation of the Earth and the environment—hijacking biological systems to further its own designs—has led to its downfall. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_5874eb12 | type |
Organic Technology | |
| The Book of Joan / int_5874eb12 | comment |
Organic Technology: Before the war, humanity learned to harness biological systems and use them to create new structures, hijacking evolution and merging technology and nature—in a move that turned out to be disastrous. Many pieces of organic tech come into play in the story, including the olms which are used to convert energy and the spider which is used to transfer information. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| The Book of Joan / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: Devolution, matter and energy, love, gender, and the cycle of creation and destruction. | |
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In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race | |
| The Book of Joan / int_680a5252 | comment |
In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race: On CIEL, human skin has lost its pigment, and everyone is literally white—almost translucent. Subverted by Joan and Leone, who have retained their French and Korean heritage, respectively. | |
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Romance Novel | |
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Romance Novel: Jean de Men's renowned skin grafts are ultimately this, providing a false sense of love and intimacy that is in fact as isolating as the internalized misogyny they are born from. | |
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Cynicism Catalyst | |
| The Book of Joan / int_6a42ef | comment |
Cynicism Catalyst: Joan's loss to Jean de Men and subsequent attempted execution cost her her faith in humanity. | |
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Jeanne d'Archétype | |
| The Book of Joan / int_6a44ee29 | comment |
Joan, of course, is a Jeanne d'Archétype. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| The Book of Joan / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Trinculo's sarcastic Affectionate Nickname for Christine, "Christ", isn't entirely inappropriate. Joan, of course, is a Jeanne d'Archétype. "Trinculo" is the name of the fool in The Tempest. Nyx is the Greek goddess of the night. Leone means lion. Christine disgustedly lampshades the appropriateness of "Jean de Men". | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Both Joan and Leone, after the horrors they witnessed as child soldiers in the war. | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye: It's not until after Leone is captured by Jean de Men that Joan realizes she loves her. | |
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Finger in the Mail | |
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Finger in the Mail: Played with. Joan sends her pinky finger, along with a lock of her hair, to the colony she learns of on Earth as proof of her identity. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
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Children Are Innocent: Played with. The children of Earth have born the worst of the warfare—many being conscripted and used as cannon fodder—and are still harshly exploited by CIEL's enforcers. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
| The Book of Joan / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: Much of the story functions on this logic as it overlaps with Rule of Cool. See Joan's brother showing up at the cave. | |
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Medical Rape and Impregnate | |
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Medical Rape and Impregnate: Jean de Men has attempted this on numerous women in an attempt to undermine the Sterility Plague, even growing false uteruses and implanting them into people. It hasn't worked. | |
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The Big Damn Kiss | |
| The Book of Joan / int_9438e550 | comment |
The Big Damn Kiss: Somewhat deconstructed, in that it's deliberately not played in the stereotypical Hollywood sense (it incorporates a far broader range of feeling), but Joan and Leone do get one after escaping from CIEL. | |
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Teleportation | |
| The Book of Joan / int_961c30e5 | comment |
Teleportation: Nyx teaches Joan how to teleport by harnessing the Earth's energetic frequencies and concentrating. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_961c30e5 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_966da803 | type |
Defiant to the End | |
| The Book of Joan / int_966da803 | comment |
Defiant to the End: Trinculo continues admonishing and Volleying Insults at Jean de Men, even after he has been flayed alive. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_966da803 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| The Book of Joan / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Jean de Men, the populist artist-turned-dictator who advocated ascension into CIEL and now rules it with an inkstained fist. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_970c790a | |
| The Book of Joan / int_9f6fb586 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| The Book of Joan / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: In-universe. The song of the universe Joan hears constantly, which Christine and Joan's other followers learn to sing. In the novel's first chapter, it gets stuck in Christine's head, foreshadowing Joan's return. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_9f6fb586 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_9fa2cfd1 | type |
Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters | |
| The Book of Joan / int_9fa2cfd1 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters: Definitely more focused on the characters and the concepts they embody than on the plot. Not much actually happens. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_a5a6d7b3 | type |
Mutants | |
| The Book of Joan / int_a5a6d7b3 | comment |
Mutants: Some members of the youngest generation on CIEL, including Nyx, have developed vaguely defined superhuman powers like walking through walls. Nyx is also able to teleport by harnessing the Earth's energetic frequencies. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_a822e80e | type |
Lit Fic | |
| The Book of Joan / int_a822e80e | comment |
Lit Fic: It's a Sci-Fi Dystopian thriller, yes, but it's also an introspective, obsessively linguistic Philosophical Novel. | |
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Eaten Alive | |
| The Book of Joan / int_abcb9af1 | comment |
In the climactic scene, Jean de Men pulls out Leone's reproductive tract and eats it. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_abcb9af1 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b1e9444f | type |
Baby Factory | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b1e9444f | comment |
Baby Factory: This is how Jean de Men sees women—especially Joan, who, unlike the rest of humanity, has not lost her reproductive capabilities. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_b1e9444f | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b535a9d6 | type |
False Utopia | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b535a9d6 | comment |
False Utopia: Most residents of CIEL don't realize they are in a Totalitarian Utilitarian autocracy where horrors are perpetrated under their noses, engrossed as they are in shallow comforts and inane fantasies. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_b535a9d6 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b7c85c86 | type |
Free-Love Future | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b7c85c86 | comment |
Free-Love Future: Deconstructed. CIEL pretends to offer this, but Jean de Men's grafts are decidedly heteronormative, and since sex characteristics are a thing of the past, all anyone can do is fantasize. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_b7c85c86 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b9db28ab | type |
Emotionless Girl | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b9db28ab | comment |
Emotionless Girl: Leone is a deconstruction. She is an extreme stoic, but Joan comes to realize that the two could easily had a deeper, more conversational relationship with her if Leone had not been afraid of her. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_b9fd7929 | type |
Morality Chain | |
| The Book of Joan / int_b9fd7929 | comment |
Morality Chain: Leone to Joan, especially after Joan's failed genocide, when Leone becomes the only human Joan still cares for. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_b9fd7929 | |
| The Book of Joan / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| The Book of Joan / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Christine and Trinculo, though they are frustrated by their inability to have sex. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_c142c1ff | type |
Childless Dystopia | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c142c1ff | comment |
Childless Dystopia: CIEL. Since sex characteristics evaporated almost two decades ago, no one has been able to conceive a child. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_c142c1ff | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c313d43a | type |
True Companions | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: Joan and Leone, who have spent years Walking the Earth together and are fiercely protective of each other to the last breath. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_c4842ab1 | type |
Appropriated Appellation | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c4842ab1 | comment |
Appropriated Appellation: Joan adopts the enemy's derogatory name for her, "Joan of Dirt," since she is of the dirt, as all humanity is. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_c6aa9afc | type |
First-Person Perspective | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c6aa9afc | comment |
First-Person Perspective: For the first half of the book Christine's parts are first-person and Joan's are third-person. Halfway through, it switches. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The book is filled with references, both explicit and in undertones, to Classical Mythology, The Bible, and Shakespeare. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_c80c751d | type |
Guy on Guy Is Hot | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c80c751d | comment |
Guy on Guy Is Hot: When pretending to masturbate for the cameras in her cell, Christine imagines Trinculo with another man. In great detail. | |
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The Book of Joan / int_c80c751d | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c98b7916 | type |
Messianic Archetype | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c98b7916 | comment |
Messianic Archetype: Joan is a deconstruction, though many of her followers believed her to be this. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_c9c756a8 | type |
Child Soldiers | |
| The Book of Joan / int_c9c756a8 | comment |
Child Soldiers: Children, including Joan and Leone, were used as foot soldiers in the war. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_cbf5c04 | type |
Insult of Endearment | |
| The Book of Joan / int_cbf5c04 | comment |
Insult of Endearment: Trinculo loves Shakespearean-sounding insults, which he volleys at Jean de Men in defiance but uses on Christine with affection. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_d32d01aa | type |
Sterility Plague | |
| The Book of Joan / int_d32d01aa | comment |
Sterility Plague: Humans have devolved and no longer possess the reproductive systems necessary to produce children. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_dcd423d2 | type |
Affectionate Nickname | |
| The Book of Joan / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Trinculo's sarcastic Affectionate Nickname for Christine, "Christ", isn't entirely inappropriate. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_e0ecb7b3 | type |
Space Station | |
| The Book of Joan / int_e0ecb7b3 | comment |
Space Station: CIEL, a satellite orbiting Earth and connected to it by supply lines, where the remains of humanity live their stunted lives. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_e794cb54 | type |
Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
| The Book of Joan / int_e794cb54 | comment |
Powered by a Forsaken Child: Played with. No children have been born on CIEL for two decades, so Jean de Men has begun resorting to twisted reproductive experiments to try to produce one. When he learns that Joan is alive, he plots to kidnap her and use her body to propagate the species. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_ea6abe17 | type |
Every Scar Has a Story | |
| The Book of Joan / int_ea6abe17 | comment |
Every Scar Has a Story: Literally. Scarification is the main form of literature on CIEL, and master burn artists like Christine are novelists. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
| The Book of Joan / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Joan arrives on CIEL in a blaze of energy in the middle of the battle between Christine's and Jean de Men's forces. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_edb6dd67 | type |
We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future | |
| The Book of Joan / int_edb6dd67 | comment |
We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: To conserve resources, CIEL residents are executed on their 50th birthdays. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_f627b434 | type |
Platonic Life-Partners | |
| The Book of Joan / int_f627b434 | comment |
Platonic Life-Partners: Joan and Leone—until Leone is captured, and Joan realizes they were (or could have been) so much more than that. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_f722f635 | type |
Great Offscreen War | |
| The Book of Joan / int_f722f635 | comment |
Great Offscreen War: Earth has been ravaged by catastrophic global warfare, which Joan and Leone both fought in as Child Soldiers. | |
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| The Book of Joan / int_fa7d3dfe | type |
Number Two | |
| The Book of Joan / int_fa7d3dfe | comment |
Number Two: Leone has always been Joan's second in command. They've been friends since they were children. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
| The Book of Joan / int_faf5732b | comment |
I Call It "Vera": Leone calls her special boot-knife "Little Bee." | |
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The Book of Joan |
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American Literature (# to D) / int_fb27d956 | |
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Jeanne d'Archétype / int_fb27d956 |
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