Impossible Knife of Memory In the Impossible Knife of Memory, when the readers meet Finn, we get to find out that Hayley Kincain has not just blue hair, but ELECTRIC blue hair. Finn even addresses Hayley as Miss Blue throughout the novel, Nice hair by the way. Is electric blue your natural color? (Halse Anderson 6). I personally think that the blue hair one is thing of many that makes Hayley stand out as an individual. Hayley Kincain is obviously a female, and shes pretty young as well. I think Hayley gets along by herself okay not only because she's tough as nails, but also because she seems to be really tall and that can be pretty intimidating. Hayley acknowledges the language of her body when walking down the street of her not so safe town, The guys would size me up us female, young, five foot-elevenish, one-sixty. Those facts were the language of my body (Halse Anderson 6). When reading the book, you dont exactly have to be rocket scientist to figure out that Hayley Kincain is an outcast not only because of her tough life, but also because she is a little strange. Hayley is also pretty intelligent too, she just chooses not to use her brain in school, Youre both tall, youre both quiet, youre both strangely smart, and even a little weird. No offense (Halse Anderson 17). Being quiet, smart, and weird is what makes Hayley so compatible with Finn, because they have that in common. You would think Hayley Kincain wouldnt be so judgmental of people because she understands people a lot of times can have a story behind there personality, yet, she classifies people into two groups, the zombies and the freaks. Hayley tells how you are either or and are never excluded from the classification, There are two kinds of people in this world: 1. zombies 2. freaks. Only two. Anyone who tell you different is lying ( Halse Anderson 3) . Hayley doesnt always follow the rules in life, especially in school. Scratch that, Hayley doesnt follow the rules at all. Hayley is constantly getting detentions for being disrespectful to the faculty and students are her school and refusing to do her work. The only thing that makes Hayley care about the trouble is when the school tries to get her father involved. Hayley even is forced to write she will not be disrespectful anymore in detention, The zombie rulers were forcing me to write, I will not be disrespectful to Mr. Diaz five hundred times (Halse Anderson 1)