Every last grain of idealism would be sacrificed on the altar of safety.
I loved the character of Tyler Grant, as so much of his idealism is part of myself. He proposes the idea of coming out of the closet with the witch—a nod to True Blood—as opposed to the town’s centuries old conservative policy of containment. It was a particularly poignant and sad situation when Steve, his father, even though admiring his son for his ideals, here needed to play them down in order to keep him safe from the town’s conservative engine—safe from being sacrificed on that alter. [SPOILER: This, of course, foreshadowing the lynching of another character later in the book. END OF SPOILER]. And hey, what might have happened if Tyler had succeeded? What if he indeed managed to get Discovery Channel to make a documentary about Katherine and open her up to the world... we might have seen a completely different outcome.
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