... the entire group. Not long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. The boys, asleep below, do not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds. A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal-fire mountain, dead. Sam and Eric, the twins responsible for watching the fire at night, are asleep and do not see the parachutist land. When the twins wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of ... for morality, order, and civilization is increasingly enabled-or excused-by the presence of the monster, the beast that has frightened the littluns sin...

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• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

... generation struggles to escape the sins of the past, only to be thrust forcefully back to face the offenses of their forefathers. The House of the Seven Gables is a tale of loneliness and greed caused by the sin of preceding generations. The opening of the novel is set in puritan times during the Salem witch hunts. The villainous Colonel Pyncheon wrongly accused the innocent Matthew Maule of witchcraft so that the Maule land would fall into the Pyncheon family's hands. Upon ... degree, exhibited the habits of the long dead Colonel Pyncheon. Some new member gains his essence and thus rek...

• Word Count: 2711
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... can. Then, a call comes in from a hotel on the other side of the city. A man named George Potter has been found with pictures of the dead children in his closet. The Fisherman has planted the pictures there and no one knows this. There is frenzy in the town as the word gets out. Potter is brought into the station to be questioned; most of the town shows up to. Jack does not believe ... . Mr. Munshun, the lord of this land, is on his way from the Crimson King to get Ty and bring him back. Jack and the others are traveling along a dirt road, lined with a wall of skulls. They hear machines ...

• Word Count: 2663
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School