Z for Zachariah Study Guide & Notes

Z for Zachariah Plot Summary

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Z for Zachariah is a novel by author Robert C. O'Brien. In this novel, a young girl named Ann Burden appears to be the only survivor of a holocaust that destroyed the majority of the United States, but left untouched the valley where she has lived all her life. Ann survives a year on her own, eating food from the local store and growing her own garden, until one day a man walks into her front yard wearing a strange suit. Ann is at first weary of her new companion, but when he becomes sick Ann feels she must do something to keep the only other person alive well. Little does Ann know that this new companion will prove to be something of a tyrant, a man who will make life with a companion far worse than life alone. Z for Zachariah is a novel...
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