Collins stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these were necessary to the story.
کالینز گفته که مرگ و میر شخصیت‌های جوان و دیگر «گذرگاه‌های تاریک» داستان سخت‌ترین بخش‌ها در هنگام نوشتن کتاب بودند ولی او پذیرفته که اینچنین گذرگاه‌هایی برای داستان ضروری هستند.