Prom. Ceremonies. Countdowns. The second semester of senior year involves many iconic traditions where students can embrace the end of their high school careers. While this is important to a lot of upperclassmen, some choose to cut off their last semester entirely through a process called early graduation.
As the temperature drops and people start to break out the warm comfy clothes, more time is spent enjoying the beautiful Autumn environment with loved ones to embrace.
Prey subverts the harmful tropes of the Western genre by depicting Native Americans fighting a sci-fi monster instead of Cowboys. The Predator is portrayed as the violent one in this story, who Naru has to defend herself against in order to survive. Naru is characterized as strategic and calculated, not “savage” and “uncivilized” like previous Native American depictions have emphasized.
