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I Cannot Self-Terminate: After a while, Karen becomes disabled by a barrage of strokes and has to be cared for by Jem, who she asks to kill her to spare her a life of misery.Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Spider and Jem, respectively.

Eyes Always Averted: Jem always makes an effort to avoid making eye contact with any person she interacts with or even passes by because when she does look them in the eye, she sees their number, which happens to foretell their date of death.

Justified, though, because her mother was a junkie, causing their poverty-ridden existence, Jem's mother's death by drug overdose, and Jem's subsequent years in foster homes.

Drugs Are Bad: Jem firmly believes this.

However, Jem doesn't express any positive or negative thoughts about it, except for relief that she can no longer see the numbers after she spends a while there. Bedlam House: After Spider's death, Jem is admitted to a psychiatric ward and drugged up and sedated.But then she meets Spider, a fifteen year old with little time left, and becomes closer to him than she'd planned. Since then, Jem has been shuttled off from foster home to foster home, all the while avoiding eye and emotional contact with other people because of the burden her ability has on her. From then on, Jem knew the numbers' significance: they were the dates of death for the persons whose eyes they were paired with. Several years later, she would see a man in a scruffy suit write it down on a piece of paper: Date of Death. When she was really young, she would proudly recite the numbers of people passing her and her mother by on the street, until her mother would angrily ask her to stop, as Jem looked into her eyes and saw her number: 10102001. When she looks into a person's eyes, she sees a number unique to that person. It consists of Numbers (2008), Numbers 2: The Chaos (2010) and Numbers 3: Infinity (2011).įor as long as she can remember, Jem has always been able to see the numbers. Numbers (also stylized as Num8ers) is a young adult novel series by Rachel Ward.