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The Weathermonger Study Guide

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by Peter Dickinson
About 8 pages (2,334 words)
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Setting

The Weathermonger is set during the period of a few years in which presentday England is held in the grip of the Changes. The most pronounced effect of the Changes stems from the feelings of revulsion they generate in people toward power-driven machinery, feelings which result in society's return to a preindustrialized mode of living. But an even more significant aspect of the Changes is reflected in society's lapse into superstition, ignorance, and hatred of outsiders. Curiously, the Changes have not had the same effect on all of England's inhabitants, and those.....

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The Weathermonger 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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