The book The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki takes place in New Starkham, Massachusetts in a current time period. Two seventh graders named Timothy and Abigail are having similar problems. They havent met before until one day in school and they become project partners for a class field trip. On the field trip Abigail is hit with a water balloon and then everyone that went after her, including Timothy and a couple of other people, begin to see things. Timothy and Abigail share stories and gather research from a library. They find out that all of the things that they are seing are being caused by a ancient jaw bone from an early civilization that plays with your fears to make you go crazy. What ever you fear thats what will come for you.
"Mammoth red, scaly hands reached out of the chasm, claws the size of cars grasping at the space just below Taft Bridge(261)".
In this single sentence the author shows alot of detail. The author is trying to make the reader imagine Timothys worst fear in person as if the reader was in that situation. This sentence isnt that complex to understand but gives so much detail. I can imagine two cars but put those into the shape of claws and on the edge of a pit you have that line all sumed up.
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