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The Fireman

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The Fireman	comment	The Fireman is a novel written by Joe Hill. A deadly spore called 'Dragonscale' that causes Spontaneous Human Combustion has infected most of the world. Civilization descends into chaos as ruthless 'Cremation Squads' murder those who are afflicted.When Harper, a pregnant nurse, finds herself infected, she vows to bring her baby to term before dying. She eventually finds refuge with a community of infected people led by the enigmatic Fireman, who knows not only how to survive the fire but to control it against those who would harm them...
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The Fireman / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Fireman / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Don Lewiston, an elderly fisherman living at Camp Wyndham, who remains completely unfazed no matter what situation is thrown his way, and whose sailing skills come in VERY handy. Deconstructed with "Father" Tom Storey. Although he's an intelligent, caring, funny, and kindhearted man, his big heart comes back to bite him when it keeps him from foreseeing the two biggest threats in the camp: His own daughter, Carol, and her conniving lover Michael. This ends up with Father Storey getting his skull fractured by Michael. Twice.
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The Fireman / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Fireman / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: It's possible for those affected with Dragonscale to produce and control fire to use as a weapon. The Fireman has become skilled at this, having learned it from Nick, and Harper develops the ability as well.
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The Fireman / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
The Fireman / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Jakob becomes obsessed with the notion he has the 'scale (even though he never catches it), and takes to scratching, cutting, or sanding any mark on his skin. By the end he's a roadmap of scars.
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The Fireman / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Fireman / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Hill lifted the title from the original draft of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Both stories are about firemen who start fires rather than put them out.
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The Fireman / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Fireman / int_2d4fa515	comment	After going Ax-Crazy from isolation and (falsely) believing Harper infected him, Jakob shows his true colors by lecturing her about how he doesn't believe women can be as intellectual as men.
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The Fireman / int_34f92510	type	Baldness Means Sickness
The Fireman / int_34f92510	comment	Baldness Means Sickness: Variation. Allie Storey sports a shaved head; it's later revealed that she did it after contracting Dragonscale, to embrace her rebellious side. played straighter with Allie's aunt Carol, who also shaves her head (except for a small forelock on her forehead). Carol also has Dragonscale, but is often starving and overtired from trying to control the camp, leaving her looking more like a standard plague victim.
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The Fireman / int_3af6c649	type	Beneficial Disease
The Fireman / int_3af6c649	comment	Beneficial Disease: Dragonscale is revealed to be this if one knows how to properly control it. Those who master it can generate fire without burning themselves, create weapons and constructs from pure flame, and nearly eliminate the chance of spontaneous combustion. Even those who don't learn pyromancy can join in the Bright, a telepathic harmony between Dragonscale victims, which creates a feeling of unity (and apparently gives one hell of a high).
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The Fireman / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Fireman / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The world is still going to hell in a handcart, but Harper, Allie, Nick, Renée, Don, and baby Ashley manage to escape on Don's boat. John takes down the remnants of the cremation crew that are targeting refugees heading for Martha Quinn's Island, but sacrifices himself in the process. However, the "post-credits" ending shows the group arrive at the Ireland coast, where other Dragonscale victims are mastering pyromancy, and it's heavily implied that John still accompanies them as a Phoenix.
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The Fireman / int_42262e0b	type	Firefighter Arsonist
The Fireman / int_42262e0b	comment	Firefighter Arsonist: A rare heroic example in the titular Fireman, John Rookwood. Infected with the incendiary Dragonscale spore, John disguises himself as a firefighter to help rescue other infected. He has mastered his own Dragonscale and become a full-fledged pyromancer, able to make fiery constructs and hurl fireballs while staying unburned.
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The Fireman / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
The Fireman / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Though Ash is Jakob's baby, rather than John's, Harper gives her the surname "Rookwood" and allows her (already infected) newborn to inhale the ash from John's phoenix, underscoring the idea that Ash is spiritually John's daughter, if not biologically.
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The Fireman / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Fireman / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Similar to NOS4A2, The Fireman features an "after-credits" scene: a young woman and her son see the survivors' boat approach, accompanied by a phoenix that may be a surviving part of John; the son demonstrates his ability to control his Dragonscale the way John and Nick could, suggesting that the group may have found real refuge at last.
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The Fireman / int_5360c039	type	Karmic Transformation
The Fireman / int_5360c039	comment	Karmic Transformation: The Marlboro Man, who lead "Cremation Squads" to murder infected people, becomes infected himself.
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The Fireman / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Fireman / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The Fireman repeatedly uses the C-word to taunt Jakob. The Marlboro Man also uses the word after being injured by Renée.
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The Fireman / int_59aa1d0b	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Fireman / int_59aa1d0b	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: Hill has referred to The Fireman as being "The Stand soaked in gasoline".
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The Fireman / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Fireman / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Ashley Rookwood - "Rookwood" because John and Harper had by the end considered themselves married and John to be the baby's real father, "Ashley" because of her baptism in her father's ashes right after birth.
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The Fireman / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Fireman / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The Marlboro Man is highly racist and sexist, joking that Obama is now even blacker than he already was after he succumbed to Dragonscale and proclaiming that every man has the right to "germ-free titties". After going Ax-Crazy from isolation and (falsely) believing Harper infected him, Jakob shows his true colors by lecturing her about how he doesn't believe women can be as intellectual as men.
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The Fireman / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
The Fireman / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: Harold Cross, Camp Wyndham's rude and crass medical student, was afflicted with chronic flatulence that literally smoked. It sure as hell didn't improve his disposition.
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The Fireman / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Fireman / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Harold Cross has already been dead for some time when Harper learns about him, but she finds his notebook hidden in the camp infirmary and learns about both his Dragonscale studies and grotesque personality.
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The Fireman / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
The Fireman / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: Society is still functioning when the novel takes place, but it's slowly breaking down, with more and more people becoming infected with Dragonscale and the Internet being reduced to a shadow of itself.
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The Fireman / int_8fe6b348	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Fireman / int_8fe6b348	comment	Sir Swearsalot: John has a massive arsenal of colorful swears and employs them with abandon. Harper has no qualms about cursing either.
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The Fireman / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Fireman / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Of the "societal disruption" variety. The world's infrastructures are still hanging on by a thread as the story closes, but fanaticism and violence are running rampant. Meanwhile, since Dragonscale is spread by ash and fires are still burning, the infection cycle is likely permanent. John points out that soon all of humanity will be affected by it, and the only choices are to learn to cope with the condition or perish from fear and ignorance.
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The Fireman / int_947bf915	type	Last Day of Normalcy
The Fireman / int_947bf915	comment	Last Day of Normalcy: The story begins with Harper working her job as a school nurse, treating a child's minor injury, just before the Dragonscale disease enters her life (via a man spontaneously combusting on the school playground). Later, a flashback shows John Rookwood and his lover's family enjoying a backyard barbecue and swimming the day of an ash fall that infects almost all of them with Dragonscale.
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The Fireman / int_952bcf83	type	The Phoenix
The Fireman / int_952bcf83	comment	The Phoenix: This is one of the Fireman's favorite things to create.
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The Fireman / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
The Fireman / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Ben Patchett, the Bright community's unofficial sheriff, clearly crushes on Harper and showers her with clumsy displays of affection. Harper, two decades younger than Ben and focusing on her survival, grows tired of it quickly, and that's even before he starts showing some fascist and sexist tendencies.
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The Fireman / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Fireman / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: John Rookwood operates in a traditional Fireman's uniform, hence his nickname (and the book's title). However, he's also a Fireman in the Bradburian sense, as in a man who starts fires instead of putting them out.
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The Fireman / int_b23a7eee	type	Celebrity Casualty
The Fireman / int_b23a7eee	comment	Celebrity Casualty: Quite a few real celebrities are mentioned. Radio host Glenn Beck burns up during a broadcast and J. K. Rowling is mentioned as being gunned down for using her wealth to give refuge to those afflicted with the plague. Martha Quinn (one of the original MTV VJ's) is heard over the Internet as a spokesperson for an island where Dragonscale victims can seek safety and medical treatment. By the time Harper learns about the island, it's been shut down and Martha has been dead for some time.
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The Fireman / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Fireman / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: John Rookwood, the titular Fireman, turns out to be one. He was a mycologist at a state college prior to the Dragonscale outbreak, and has continued studying it even as he builds a reputation as a fearless, awesomely crazy hero with fire powers.
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The Fireman / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Fireman / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: A refuge where the infected survivors can receive treatment and be taken care of is spoken of throughout the novel. While it did exist, it turns out to have burned down months before, and is now used as a ruse meant to draw in the infected as a way to kill them.
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The Fireman / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Fireman / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the items stolen in the camp is a large coffee mug with stars painted on it; it's referred to several times as a "cup of stars"
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The Fireman / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
The Fireman / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: The Fireman's girlfriend is killed in a fire but a part of her still exists in the fire itself - first in John's furnace, then in a bucket of coals that he salvages from it upon leaving his island.
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The Fireman / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
The Fireman / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: When John leaves his island for the last time, he takes along a bucket of coals from the furnace that houses Sarah's spirit. She later emerges from that bucket to kill Jakob when he tries to murder Harper on the road through Maine.
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The Fireman / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
The Fireman / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Harper reasons that she and her baby have a much better chance of survival if she does everything in her power to actively protect herself; therefore, she's still climbing around and generally doing everything that doesn't physically drop her, even well into her final trimester.
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The Fireman / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
The Fireman / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Rather than kill the Marlboro Man, the Fireman instead infects him with the Dragonscale.
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The Fireman / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Fireman / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Don speaks glowingly of his old (male) fishing partner, and refuses to let the Bright take away his memories of him. While he speaks in friendship terms, his tone is tender enough to interpret they may have also been lovers.
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The Fireman / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Fireman / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Harper will survive long enough to deliver her baby. And no Jerkass ex-husband, cultists, cremation squads, or fiery pandemic will stop her from doing so.
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The Fireman / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Fireman / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Though he's fully complicit in Carol's cult of personality, Ben's very last act is to run into a firefight and grab an unconscious Nick, carrying him back to safety even as he's torn apart by bullets. Even when one takes off the top of Ben's skull he makes sure Nick is safe before finally collapsing.
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