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Passager Study Guide

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by Jane Yolen
About 12 pages (3,519 words)
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Setting

The events of Passager take place in a forest in Britain in the late fifth or early sixth century, the era when the Romanized Britons were being pushed out of their lands by the Angles, Saxons, and other Germanic peoples. The focus in Passager is very much on the life of a small boy abandoned in the woods, with the larger issues only hinted at in Merlin's prophetic dreams.

The action first takes place among the oak trees of the forest, with the boy encountering meadows and streams and having to beware of predators, especially wild dogs that hunt him and sometimes force him to flee into the upper branches of trees......

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Passager 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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