- Alternative Character Interpretation: Given that Lisa is a twelve-year-old girl taking most of her ideas about property from a book that is implied to be Atlas Shrugged, a possible interpretation of her character is that she is merely reiterating the ideas presented in it without thinking critically about them, as a child would be likely to do.
- Given some of Lisa's more selfish actions, refusal to delegate/share power, and how she found scavenging fun, she comes off as borderline sociopathic to some readers.
- Jill is meant to be considered naive and wrong, but her willingness to take in orphans, and trying to teach younger children to share and cooperate, and keeping them out of harm's way makes her look more mature and sensible, especially for readers that don't buy the Objectivist underpinnings.
- Anvilicious - Simply due to being a book where the message eclipses the story. Though whether it does this or not depends on your point of view.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In order to justify her claiming the ownership of the school, Lisa cited "The Republic of Minerva" as an example of a privately-owned city that functioned, when in reality the founders of this micronation were driven off twice by Tonga - the actual owners of the reef before they could really build anything that can be considered a city.
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