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For Tally, the roller coaster in the Rusty Ruins becomes a symbol of her coming of age. It throws into sharp relief all that she doesn’t know about the Rusties, and becomes undeniable proof that what she believed to be true about the Rusties doesn’t tell the whole story. It’s shocking for Tally when Shay explains that the roller coaster was for having fun; Tally never realized that the Rusties had any fun. In this way, the roller coaster becomes the catalyst for Tally’s coming of age and intellectual growth, as it forces her to humanize the Rusties and question what her own society has told her about their predecessors, two things that the novel suggests are essential to maturation.