Noah's last name, Noyes, is a contradiction within itself and exemplifies the war of yes and no, the war of good and evil that escalates throughout the novel until it reaches the final breaking point. ... Hannah, " 'going about her business,' just as she [has] been told [is] the only treasure in the trove" (pg 15) of Noah. ... On the ark, Hannah is "the only passenger who thinks about survival clinically: who reasons through the whole long process of staying alive at any cost: whose perseverance is calculated from moment to moment." ... (pg 116) For Noah there is no trut...

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