# Revenge and Justice in The Survivors

> Theme guide for The Survivors by Tom Godwin.

The survivors harbor a deep, generations-long hatred for the Gerns who destroyed their ship and killed their loved ones, driving their goal to escape Ragnarok and exact vengeance.

## Where it surfaces

- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_survivors_se/chapters/iv): Lake disembowels the Gern officers who killed a boy, and the colonists manipulate Narth into revealing his treachery, showing a harsh, retributive justice.

## Links

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