Meridian (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Meridian: a Fenestra who is the main character and suffers through a lot throughout the story
• Auntie: She is also named Meridian; actually the main character's great-great-aunt, another Fenestra who is 106 years old
• Tens: A boy who lives with Auntie. Meridian has feelings for him.
• Custos: Auntie, Tens, and Meridian's pet wolf
• Celia: A little girl who gets lost in the woods. Tens and Merdian offer to look for her.
• Charles: Auntie's deceased partner and her protector.
• Winnie: Auntie's friend who passes away in the hands of Meridian
• Reverend Perimo: Revelation's local reverend - the villain of the story who is cruel
• Josiah: Helpful Cabbie
• Sammy: Young Meridian's little brother
• Sarah: Grand-daughter of one of Auntie's friends, Jasper
• Mr. Lombardo: Owns the town Pizza shop, one of few who still likes Auntie
• Mrs. Fulbright: Add a description of this character.
• Dr. Portalso-Marquez: daughter of Señora Portalso, a woman Meridian meets on the bus
• Señora Portalso: a friendly woman who speaks little English. Meridian meets her on the bus and the Señora calls Meridian 'Luz' meaning light.

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• “Smoked sausage and a jolly tupping. Ale and folly. Fickle bosoms and bar fights. That is the sum of experiences my souls gathered from their lives. All foods I don't understand. Why do I attract all the unsophisticated fancy men? For once could one love the opera and his mother? —Lucinda Myer, b. 1702-d. 1808”

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• Memento te mortalem esse sed vim in perpetuum durare. Remember you are mortal but energy lives forever.

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• “What good is a quilt if it’s unused? The same as a life unused. They’re meant to be wrung out and frayed around the edges. That’s the way of things. Always has been. Always will be.”

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• Lux tenebras semper vincit. Light always conquers the darkness.

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• Love is the greatest act of Faith. —Lucinda Myer

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• “I love you. Don’t you know that?” He’d closed his eyes with his confession.

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• I kept swiveling my head, thinking that if I could see the threat coming I could do something brave and heroic, like get the hell out of the way.

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• We fit together like we’d done this a million times before. I tasted tomorrow on his lips.

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• It is what we are taught. It is what we know. It is our deepest secret, for to know the truth quite literally requires a death. The seeker’s death, not ours. Never ours, until the end. So we never tell. When our loved ones begin to fade out of their bodies, & they are able to see us for the first time, well, by then it is too late to explain. So we burn brightly & become the doorway, the path between this life & the beyond.

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• “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form?”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Revelation, Colorado: small, rural-ish town in colorado where Auntie lives
• Portland, Oregon: city where Meridian used to live before she realized she was a Fenestra

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Glossary edit see section history

• fenestra: a half human, half angel link between the living and the dead
• Aternocti: like a evil fenestra

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Theme: Don't fear Death: People fear what they don't understand. We must do the best we can to understand or look at something from a different point of view. Like Death.

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Followed by Wildcat Fireflies.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Amber Kizer (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PZ7.K6745Mer 2009
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• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Teens › Social Issues

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