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Great Sky River Study Guide

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by Gregory Benford
About 6 pages (1,786 words)

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Characters

The Family Bishop, the men and women at the center of Great Sky River, is essentially a fighting unit, and its members share many of the personality traits of the soldier-characters of the typical World War II film. Benford gives us a competent, but aging commanding officer; a self-doubting protagonist named Killeen who has what it takes to command, but must prove it to himself and others; an eager and somewhat bumbling teenager who sees it all as a game; a variety of more or less competent followers; and an ambitious.....

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Great Sky River 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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