Crystal Cave And Left For Dead: A Literary Analysis

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When Fear Takes Over In Nightfall, The Crystal Cave, and Left for Dead there is a reoccurring topic that each book has in common. The topic that keeps finding its place in the novels is fear. Fear can make you do all sorts of actions that you normally would not do. Sometimes fear can make you go completely insane. In these books the topic of fear is shown throughout by starvation, thirst, darkness, and death which leads these characters to make out of the ordinary decisions.
In the novel Left for Dead, fear is shown through thirst and starvation. For example, some of the sailors are so hungry they resort to cannibalism. Also, the sailors were drinking salt water due to the fear of thirst. Another example of thirst, is when it drove a

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