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- When the reader meets Rowan, he's a self-professed "lettuce kid"—a forgotten middle child who believes his life is pointless. He does, however, demonstrate early on in the novel that he's compassionate and caring by insisting on holding his classmate Kohl Whitlock 's hand when Scythe Faraday comes to school to glean Kohl.
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Rowan sees becoming a scythe as a way to infuse his life with purpose. Though he continues to question the righteousness of gleaning, he believes fully in Faraday's ideas when the two are together. Faraday makes a point to develop Rowan's compassion even more, and it often impresses Citra.
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The novel does imply, however, that despite Rowan's training and the awful things that Goddard makes him do, Rowan is able to maintain a sense of moral righteousness by choosing, at various points, to exercise his compassion and help potential victims of Goddard's crew escape.
Rowan recognizes that openly defying Goddard is not possible, but he has too much integrity, compassion for others, and personal strength to fully succumb to Goddard’s teachings. As such, Rowan quietly commits to an outward show of compliance while he secretly maintains several forms of rebellion, including saving people’s lives during the ...
Here, Citra displays great compassion and understanding when required to kill her little brother to pass the final apprenticeship test. Likewise, though Rowan feels his humanity slipping in the wake of the killings he has committed, he resolves that he will not glean Citra, even if sparing her results in his own death.
Rowan copes with the trauma of the mass gleanings he attends with Goddard by compartmentalizing his thoughts. Goddard informs his scythes that they will be eradicating rabble, which turns out to be a Tonist monastery. He also tells a horrified Rowan that he must glean someone under Goddard’s proxy.
Citra is impressed by how Rowan behaved, as he did most of the emotional work. She refuses to let Faraday take her to the hospital to have her bite healed, as she feels she owes the man a night of pain. Rowan is modest about his admirable behavior, which makes Citra mad and also attracted to him.
He taught Rowan and Citra to glean with compassion. Scythe Faraday goes as far as to fake his death to save Rowan's life (and Citra's). After Rowan finds that Faraday is still alive, he stays with him for a while, before becoming Scythe Lucifer, which Faraday advises against, but does not stop him.
