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Endnotes explained

The endnotes provide citations and clarifications for references made throughout the book, including a note distinguishing the tiger-shark of the South Seas from other species.

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The endnotes provide citations and clarifications for references made throughout the book, including a note distinguishing the tiger-shark of the South Seas from other species.

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book.

SetupAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

This is the story’s dramatic climax because it marks the irreversible moral collapse of the children’s innocen…

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Key passages

  • “The tiger-shark of the South Seas is of course a very different cattle.”

    The tiger-shark found in the South Seas is a distinctly different creature.

    Clarifies a distinction made in the main text.