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The Subtle Knife Summary & Study Guide Description
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The Subtle Knife is the second book in the three-volume His Dark Materials series and continues the story of the conflict between the Authority, personified by the Church, that demands humility and submission from all creatures and those who rebel against the Authority's control. This book introduces the character of Will Parry, a twelve-year-old boy who stumbles into another world by accident. Will joins Lyra, the protagonist from the first book in the trilogy, and even though they have different goals and objectives at first, they discover that they are both an integral part of the same battle.
The book begins with Will Parry's efforts to keep his vulnerable and mentally unstable mother safe from two men who repeatedly harass them, demanding information about Will's vanished father, artic explorer John Parry. In trying to flee the thieves after he finds his father's letters, Will accidentally causes the death of one...
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