Finis By Frank Pollack

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Analysis of “Finis”
The “Finis” by Frank L. Pollack is story about how the city of New York was waiting for this gigantic mass of glowing matter; then after twenty-six years the rays of that second sun caused a huge disaster to the city.
The story begins in the newly built Physics Building of Columbia University that was about twelve stories high. In the building, there was a physics laboratory that had many people inside of the room, their names were Davis, Eastwood, Alice Wardour, and Professor Bernier. Alice Wardour, was the lazy, shy, and smart teacher. She worked at the Art students league but weirdly, she had few interests with books. Eastwood, was a professor at the physics building, and Davis was guy that did not talk a lot. While the professor was very smart, but he was also curious of the things that surround him.
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Professor Adolph Bernier, said that the universe must have a center point and things in space will revolve around that pivot point. So he came up with a point that there must be a central sun that does not move at all. That central sun has many names, it can be called a vast glowing body, hypothetical body, gigantic mass of glowing matter, and can be named as the second sun. That second sun will someday be seen large enough that it will be visible to the people on

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