Eclipse of the Sun His older children flee into the forest of the northern interior, accompanied by their great-grandfather and an elderly priest, Father Andrei.
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Their little brother Arrow also becomes a fugitive as the government seeks to remove any witnesses, and eradicate all evidence of its ultimate goals. As O'Brien draws together the several strands of the story into a frightening yet moving climax, he explores the heart of growing darkness in North America, examining events which have already occurred.
The reader will take away from this disturbing book a number of urgent questions: Are we living in the decisive moment of history?
How dire is our situation? Do we live in pessimistic dread, or a Christian realism founded on hope? This is a tale about the victory of the weak over the powerful, courage over terror, good over evil, and, above all, the triumph of love. Paperback , pages. Published September 1st by Ignatius Press first published December 1st Children of the Last Days 2. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about Eclipse of the Sun , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Oct 12, John O'Brien rated it it was amazing. I'm rating my father's novels here as a fan. I look forward to his books as much as anyone else, and find them deeply moving. I am not unaware of their flaws, but their strengths surpass them, and so abundantly, that I find them almost moot. I'm normally moved to the point of tears about times per novel If I find myself choked up only once, I tell him it's not his best work.
He has a rare gift of penetrating deeply into spiritual truths, which is a reflection of the person he is -- an arti I'm rating my father's novels here as a fan. He has a rare gift of penetrating deeply into spiritual truths, which is a reflection of the person he is -- an artist who has been refined in a furnace of faith, not unlike many of his characters. It's not a paranoid dystopian vision, but it does ask us to be vigilant about essential freedoms that are central to human flourishing.
Mostly it's about the characters who live in this scenario. My father's tremendous compassion for humanity was first revealed to me in this novel, although it was present in his earlier ones: Many characters continue from the earlier novel "Plague Journal", which ideally should be read first. Sep 20, Shzwah rated it it was amazing. I picked up this book for 25 cents at Goodwill. Knew nothing about it, or the series that this novel is a part of although each novel in the series also serves as a stand alone, so you aren't missing out if you start in the middle.
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His works are deeply inspiring despite their gruesome and sometimes harrowing twists and turns. Dec 29, Dan rated it it was amazing Shelves: What an amazing ending to the series! Eclipse felt so real - not far fetched at all and I believe a warning to the West. Michael D O'Brien is the greatest Catholic writer alive. Mar 12, Fr. Ryan Humphries rated it really liked it Recommends it for: As I said before, a deep and profound book, perhaps too much so. Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Elijah's description of Eichmann.
Strangers and Sojourners and Plague Journal contain these. Some of them double as Author Filibuster. The goal of the global conspiracy. Pawel's Great-Uncle Nicholas molests him when he is six years old. Completely Missing the Point. Maya's reaction to Arrow's prophetic dream. The commune is destroyed, and he is saved by a man from the convent whom he met in the woods in real life, previously. Maya blames the man from the convent for causing the nightmare. This is how Nathaniel characterizes his readers' reactions to his satiric essay "Curtains for Claus". Andrei and Jan Tarnowski.
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Colin was lured into one of these when he was young. The drug commune is also one of these. Dark and Troubled Past: Colin, Stephen, Jan, and Pawel all have these. Department of Child Disservices: In Plague Journal , they are involved in falsely accusing Nathaniel of molesting his kids to take them away.
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In A Cry of Stone , prompted by Fr. Andrei, they remove Binemin from the Boarding School of Horrors , but hand him over to devil worshipers, eschewing other alternatives. Averted with Pawel Tarnowski. Implied to be the ultimate resolution of the conflict. Arrow becomes dangerously ill, and needs to be hospitalized. Beth takes him, pretending he is her son, Noah. Just as he is being released, and it looks like the ruse has worked, a doctor comes out of nowhere, and reveals that Arrow is not Noah Potter.
In Sophia House , Pawel and David are in the eponymous store which doubles as Pawel's home after hours, when, out of nowhere, Count Smokrev walks in to discover them. Also, Nathaniel, in Eclipse of the Sun. But then, the government "disappeared" him.
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The state and the media are portrayed as employing these against anyone who disagrees with them, particularly traditional Christians. Dreaming of Things to Come: Arrow's dream of the attack on the commune, before it happens. Tyler's dream, in Plague Journal , of the epilogue of Eclipse of the Sun. Ron seem to have these, though we don't see them come true in-story.
Averted, particularly with Anne and Colin. Elijah seeks to prevent, by converting the Antichrist. Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Antichrist is simply known as the Antichrist or the President of the Europarliament.
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The Archbishop of Vancouver is also known simply by his title. The Nazis, along with the Antichrist's inner circle. The Antichrist, Maurice, and many of the more liberal characters. Eclipse of the Sun and Sophia House. Father Elijah reveals the ending of Sophia House , nine years before the latter was published. Also, Eclipse of the Sun was released before Plague Journal. If you read the books in order of release, you know that Nathaniel is captured. Arrow dreams of the destruction of his village before it happens. Eclipse of the Sun and Sophia House are told in flashback form, and Plague Journal is supposed to be an actual journal.
McKenna at Binemin's boarding school. Mocked and defied in A Cry of Stone. Rose's critics have a tendency to wrongly interpret sexual meanings into her paintings. From a Certain Point of View: The main characters, especially Nathaniel, Fr.
Good Is Not Nice: Lampshaded by Nathaniel in Plague Journal. The Archbishop of Vancouver, Fr. The framing of Nathaniel Delaney and Fr. Just look at how he handles his interrogators in Eclipse of the Sun. What Arrow goes through. He is raised in a drug commune where his mother Really Gets Around and the medicine man is a pedophile. He escapes, and witnesses, the destruction of his home at the hands of the Government Conspiracy.
He has to go on the run with Fr. Andrei, and escapes when the priest is captured. After hiding out with Alice, he is captured and sent to a concentration camp, where Maurice threatens to have him raped into insanity. The abuse suffered by Binemin, both before he is rescued, and at the Boarding School of Horrors. Also, the molestation of six-year-old Pawel. Elijah tries to do to the Antichrist.
He is successful with Count Smokrev. This seems to begin for Maurice in Plague Journal. Arrow has one of these when he finds out his parents have been murdered. Euphrasia has one of these when she finds out that the love letters she was receiving were actually a cruel prank. Elijah comes close to having one of these when the Pope tells him the Apocalypse is near. Andrei and Pawel Tarnowski. Also, Maurice and Alice. Elijah, Eichmann liked Mozart and roses. Andrei thinks Maurice is an atheist, but he is actually a member of the Religion of Evil.
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Ashley plays this trope straight, however. Averted with Anne and Colin, who later convert to Catholicism. Averted entirely with Anna, in Father Elijah. In Eclipse of the Sun , the truck driver who gives Fr. Andrei a ride comments that the Poles were just as bad as the Germans when it came to the Holocaust.
Not according to most serious academic discussions of the matter. Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every level of society is infected with propaganda, confusion and disinformation. Few people are equipped to recognize what is happening because the culture of the Western world has been deformed by a widespread undermining of moral absolutes.
Against this background, the Delaney family of Swiftcreek, British Columbia, is struck a severe blow when the father of the family, the editor of a small newspaper which dares to speak the truth, is arrested by the dreaded Office of Internal Security. His older children flee into the forest of the northern interior, accompanied by their great-grandfather and an elderly priest, Father Andrei. Their little brother Arrow also becomes a fugitive as the government seeks to remove any witnesses, and eradicate all evidence of its ultimate goals.
As O'Brien draws together the several strands of the story into a frightening yet moving climax, he explores the heart of growing darkness in North America, examining events which have already occurred.