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Ann Burden is the main character in the novel "Z for Zechariah" by Robert O'Brien.
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... Ann Burden is the main character in the novel "Z for Zechariah" by Robert O'Brien. The novel is in the form of her diary, written after a nuclear war. Ann, when the novel opens, is one month short of her sixteenth birthday and she has been surviving by herself for about a year with only chickens, 3 cows and some fish as the only other living creatures. Her family and their dog went out to look for other people but they didn't come back. Subsequently a stranger comes arrives into Burden valley. The diary then reveals Ann's character and her reactions when the stranger cautiously enters the valley. Ann decides to be cautious herself and she hides in the cave and spies on him, she wants company but fears him just in case he is a madman. Before this she digs up the food she has been growing in her garden,













