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Childhood’s End is a science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1953. The novel follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, who bring about a utopian era of peace and prosperity. As the next stage of human evolution unfolds, questions of identity, purpose, and the price of progress ...
- Chapters 3–4
A summary of Chapters 3–4 in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's...
- Important Quotes Explained
This quote is said by Stormgren, in Chapter 3. It makes...
- George Greggson
Of all the characters in Childhood's End, George Greggson,...
- Full Book Summary
Childhood's End Full Book Summary. It is the late twentieth...
- Symbols
A summary of Symbols in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End....
- Motifs
Summary & Analysis Prologue–Chapter 2 Chapters 3–4 ......
- Themes
In Childhood's End, knowledge and technology is a dead-end....
- Key Facts
Full title Childhood's End. Author Arthur C. Clarke. Type of...
- Suggested Essay Topics
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- The Overmind
At the conclusion of Childhood's End, the Earth is...
- Chapters 3–4
The publication of Childhood’s End, his third science fiction novel, made him as one of the most popular authors of his time. Clarke wrote many more Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novels, developed the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick, and hosted a number of TV shows dedicated to exploration of the paranormal.
As the last man on Earth, he witnesses the beginning of the end of the human race. And if the end of the human race doesn't signal the approach of a story's conclusion, then we don't know what does. Resolution Or Why We Can't Have Nice Things. The resolution comes with the end of humanity and the birth of another aspect of the Overmind.
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Science and Mysticism. In Childhood’s End, a benevolent race of aliens comes to govern Earth. The Overlords, as humanity names them, initiate a century of utopia on Earth, which ends with all human children transcending into the Overmind, an immaterial, universal collective consciousness. In doing so, the children advance the human race into ...
The narrator in Childhood's End is not a part of the story itself. He/she/the Overlord/whatever is an outsider looking into the events of the story and describing them to us, like a radio announcer...
