In the book A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans uses the idea of a demonic presence to suggest the idea that there are sources of evil in everyday life, for example, the significant theme of technology in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Both authors present pernicious issues that cause obsession, emotional turmoil, and strained relationships in the lives of the protagonists. Also, each book introduces the malevolent subjects as things that are supposed to be helpful to the characters involved, and after the struggling with the harmful obstacles, both main characters find a solution in similar ways.
First, Evans and Sloan bring the evil into the main character’s life without him realizing that it is there for wicked reasons. …show more content…
After years and years of suppressing his memories of his disturbing childhood, George reopens his mind as an adult when he sees a therapist to help with the fact that he is afraid to touch his newborn son because he was trying to protect him from whatever demonic cursed trapped him and his father. It was until the very end of the book that George realizes that he should be protecting his son himself, not ignoring him like his father had done to him. As he goes into his old apartment to hold his son for the first time, he sees another demon pressed against the apartment window, and George describes, “I wrap the baby in my arms. I swear to him that I will never leave him, that I will stay, that I will protect him. That’s how we will break the curse, I whisper” (p. 320). He finally took the years of turmoil that he has faced from his own demon and had the courage to fight against the evil that was trying to consume him. In reflection, Clay learns to reach a goal without relying on the empty promises that technology has brought him in the past. After trying to use computers and programming to decode the codex vitae of Manutius, Clay ditches the dark web and instead turns to the old artifact, Gerritszoon punches: the original letters of aged font, in which he discovers that tiny notches on the letters that can only be seen with a magnifying glass are the key to finally solving the message. It takes Clay and George a significant amount of time to finally realize that these obstacles that have been leeching the enjoyment out of their life does not have the ability to control them unless they give into their dark and lifeless
First, Evans and Sloan bring the evil into the main character’s life without him realizing that it is there for wicked reasons. …show more content…
After years and years of suppressing his memories of his disturbing childhood, George reopens his mind as an adult when he sees a therapist to help with the fact that he is afraid to touch his newborn son because he was trying to protect him from whatever demonic cursed trapped him and his father. It was until the very end of the book that George realizes that he should be protecting his son himself, not ignoring him like his father had done to him. As he goes into his old apartment to hold his son for the first time, he sees another demon pressed against the apartment window, and George describes, “I wrap the baby in my arms. I swear to him that I will never leave him, that I will stay, that I will protect him. That’s how we will break the curse, I whisper” (p. 320). He finally took the years of turmoil that he has faced from his own demon and had the courage to fight against the evil that was trying to consume him. In reflection, Clay learns to reach a goal without relying on the empty promises that technology has brought him in the past. After trying to use computers and programming to decode the codex vitae of Manutius, Clay ditches the dark web and instead turns to the old artifact, Gerritszoon punches: the original letters of aged font, in which he discovers that tiny notches on the letters that can only be seen with a magnifying glass are the key to finally solving the message. It takes Clay and George a significant amount of time to finally realize that these obstacles that have been leeching the enjoyment out of their life does not have the ability to control them unless they give into their dark and lifeless