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Chapter Seventy
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Children of Virtue and Vengeance, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Power and Systems of Oppression
Cycles of Violence
Tradition and History
Love vs. Duty
Summary
Analysis
Inan’s arms go limp with shock as Ojore snarls that he’s a tîtán. He sends Inan’s dagger back at Inan. It lands in the iron wall. The metal floor transforms and columns shoot up, hitting Inan. Ojore shakes with anger and says he hated himself and his magic, but Inan and Nehanda are the real problem. Ojore says that Inan doesn’t deserve the throne as he conjures more metal to restrain and torture Inan. Inan shouts for help, thinking that he and Nehanda poisoned Ojore with their hate. He knows that Ojore is justified in his anger. Nehanda appears, kills Ojore with a column of earth, and screams that they need to leave.
What Ojore implies here is that the throne itself—and the power that comes with it—corrupts even people whom the reader can see are kind and generous, but misguided and surrounded by the wrong people. That Inan recognizes the truth of what Ojore says speaks to Inan’s ability to go on and fix some of what he now realizes is wrong: that he’s hoping to rule on a platform that’s fundamentally hateful and violent.
Themes
