Christopher Pike's “The Listener“

The story begins in present day LA during the last few days of FBI agent David Conner’s career. At age 39 Conner A 15-year veteran of the FBI is retiring for good after the murder of his girlfriend and the accidental death of the young girl David was sent to rescue on his last assignment. David believes that he indirectly caused both of their deaths and because of this he has lost his faith in Truth, Justice and the American way, unlike his good friend and boss Ned Calendar who at the age of 70 is also about to retire. Ned gives David one last assignment which he insists only he can handle, and after a short briefing and much deliberation, David is on a plane to Boise Idaho to investigate a Channeling group headed by Anthropologist Dr. Spear, a strange man with a mysterious past. Channeling is a new age term, which is basically going into hypnosis and allowing entities to speak through you. David is curious as to why the FBI would be concerned with such matters and Ned reluctantly informs him that the FBI had come across some memoirs that spear wrote in which he talks about an entity that the group channeled. This entity which calls itself the Big Mind des

The Protagonist in this story is obviously FBI agent David Conner. A poor broken man who in the end regains his faith in life. The Antagonist in this story is more difficult to Identify. It could be Dr. Spear who lost his wife and sister –in-law because of his reckless curiosity and was about to do the same with Lucy and Vera. Although he has bad qualities Spear did make sacrifices and did have redeeming qualities. The next antagonist would be the entities that possessed Lucy and Francis, it was actually an ancient race that millions of years ago was extinct, and Dr. Spears Genetic regression which is having a person regress through their genetic chain all the way back past humans and dinosaurs. The race can only re-enter the world through a genetic mirror or identical twins. I would say that the Antagonist is these entities.

The theme or general idea is that people can either move forward in time or backward. Spear concentrated on the past Margaret on the future, the author was trying to say not to dwell on the past as David Conner was-his girlfriend Sandy Quin and Angela Wilson were dead and in the past and Lucy was his future. The Big Mind had told David when they first talked that a wave was coming to take him to shore to bring him back, in the end that wave ended up being Lucy.

cribed certain classified information within the government and when the FBI checked it out they found that the Big Mind’s information was correct. They are concerned about how much the Big Mind knows so they want to sent an agent undercover as a reporter to investigate the group on their retreat. When David arrives in Boise the first members he meet are identical twins, Vera and Lucy. Lucy had discovered her talent a year ago when she was working as a massage therapist during her senior year in Stanford. She often used Applied Kinesiology or locking of the muscles to learn things about her clients, eventually she realized she didn’t need to use AK to learn things about people, that the answers just popped into her head. She also discovered that when Vera was present she was much more accurate. After attending one of Spears lectures she told him about her talent and he immediately recruited her and Vera into his group. Dr. Spear himself does not participate in the chan

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