Here were just some things that stood out to me during the first part of this reading...

I thought it was oddly fitting that Sister Edgar was described like death/some powerful force in the game of "Tag, You're It" that damns children forever. (717) On page 720, Matt also describes her nun's habit like something the Grim Reaper would wear: "It was her after all, habit and hood. The cloth was daunting. She was all cloth. She was a wall of laundered cloth. A woman of the cloth."

I also wondered about those dogtags that the kids have to wear so that their bodies could be identified "following the onset of atomic war" (717). Wouldn't the dogtags be destroyed, as well? What's the point then?