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Part One: Nothing if Not Powerful

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shusterman, Neal. Thunderhead. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2018.

• In a pre-chapter note, the Thunderhead of the title explains the significance of its name and the flaws in the analogy that leads to it.

• Scythe Brahms rehearses his circumstances and his practices as he goes about Omaha.

• He is attacked and flees from his attacker, whom he comes to recognize as Scythe Lucifer.

• Lucifer overcomes him but spares his life as a warning to him.

• Lucifer departs, and the shaken Brahms is left to contemplate his own situation.

• In another pre-chapter note, the Thunderhead notes that its “love of humanity is complete and pure,” though it does “long to be understood” (13).

• After his encounter with Brahms, Rowan considers his situation and circumstances.

• Rowen does not necessarily know himself and muses on...

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