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Children of the Night Study Guide

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by Mercedes Lackey
About 7 pages (2,041 words)
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Social Concerns

A novel of occult horror, Children of the Night tells of a struggle with dark beings from a mythic netherworld. They appear seemingly at random, consuming ordinary men and women to feed their voracious appetites. Such evil beings are shown as self-maintaining and eternal, not symbols of dangers in the social sphere.

Still, their rampage through Manhattan uses a menacing atmosphere to suggest there are destructive lifestyles in the city. The first victims, for example, die after a party where they try a buffet of psychoactive drugs.

But not all unusual ways.....

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Children of the Night from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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