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
Amari follows the elders through the forest on her cheetanaire, lost in thinking about how things might work out. Na’imah stops Amari’s cheetanaire when Amari doesn’t notice the others stopped. They all dismount and Dakarai says he’s having a vision. He turns away for privacy and then struggles to make the window of stars between his palms focus. With effort, Dakarai conjures a vision of Chândomblé surrounded by soldiers, including Nehanda. Kenyon threatens to burn them all, but Amari insists that they can’t let the soldiers know they’re coming. Amari sketches out an idea in the dirt and Kenyon leans down to listen.
Amari is able to do much the same thing here as Inan was able to do in the last chapter. Because Amari grew up royal and knows how the military works (and knows Inan better than anyone in the Iyika), she has the skills and knowledge to formulate a plan to thwart the other side. The soldiers surrounding Chândomblé are especially troubling, as Chândomblé is one of the last temples in Orïsha and their goal is to destroy things like this temple.
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