The Road

The road symbolizes the future for Ruby's generation, and is filled with potential problems as well as hope.

The Children's League

This is a political group that symbolizes control and corruption. The group had a hold on Ruby in a previous novel of the series, and it was ruthless in the way they used the children and their abilities. The president attacked the headquarters, scattering the agents and children. The League continued to take credit for the actions of Ruby's group, though the group as a whole was ineffective by the time Ruby's group released children from the camps.

Child

A child is typically referring to a person who is very young, but the children of this novel symbolize the generation affected by IAAN. Though many of them are in their mid- to late-teens by the time of this novel, they are referred to in...