Hawkline Monster 2

"A unique thought was now in the shadow's mind and the thought was linking itself up with a plan of direct action to take place when next the monster chose to move. 'This sure is a weird place,' Greer said. 'It ain't any weirder than Hawaii,' Cameron said."

There is a lot of repetition in this book, it really adds emphasis to what is said. The characters always mention Hawaii and what a terrible experience that was for them at random times and every time the characters decide to go kill the "monster" just to get it over with, they get distracted by something and end up putting it off. Also, I find it really interesting that the "monster" in the book is the light, while the hero is the shadow. Usually that role is reversed- most people associate light with "good" and shadow with "bad," so the idea that the shadow saves them all from the light is really interesting to me. The end of the book really intrigued me too- it had no fairy tale ending. All of the the characters went on to live normal yet unhappy lives and nothing special came out of all the things that happened with the Hawkline monster. I couldn't see any kind of moral coming out of this story unless its something along the lines of things aren't always what they seem or don't judge a book by it's cover... coming from the fact that the shadow was the real hero of the story- which I for one did not see coming when I first picked up this book.