Seventh Son | Literary Qualities
Seventh Son combines suspenseful narrative and rich realistic description with moral seriousness. Almost every chapter contains an exciting event: the Miller family wagon trapped in the middle of a raging flash flood, the heavy ridge beam of a church under construction falling toward the workers beneath it, Reverend Thrower coming to the Millers' under "divine" instruction to kill Alvin—these are only a few examples. Not all such events threaten Alvin with death. After he sends the cockroaches to his sisters' bedroom, he communes with "the shining man," a supernatural visitor...
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