Armageddon Summer: Difference between revisions

m
Mass update links
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Literature.ArmageddonSummer 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Literature.ArmageddonSummer, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license)
 
m (Mass update links)
 
(3 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 2:
[[File:armsummer_3806.png|frame]]
 
A collaborative [[Young Adult]] novel by [[Bruce Coville (Creator)|Bruce Coville]] and [[Jane Yolen]] written in 1998.
 
Two teenagers, Jed and Marina, have little in common beside the fact that their parents have joined a [[Cult]] that believes that the world is about to end on July 27, 2000. All the families in this cult (called The Believers), have made a camp at the top of a mountain to wait out the Apocalypse.
{{tropelist}}
----
=== This novel provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: {{spoiler|Reverend Beelson hopes to do this. He even calls the women "Eves."}}
* [[Anti -Villain]]: {{spoiler|Reverend Beelson is portrayed in a rather sympathetic light. Jed is surprised to see, when he talks to him, that Beelson genuinely cares for all of his followers even if his methods are quite questionable.}}
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Reverend Beelson does this several times, and Marina does it to.
* [[Crisis of Faith]]: {{spoiler|Both religious Marina and nonreligious Jed go through one. In the end, Marina finds herself losing her religion, while Jed finds himself becoming more religious.}}
* [[Cult]]: Jed and Marina's parents join one.