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The Moon Essay, Research Paper

The Moon is Down Chapter One: Here we learn

that a small town has been taken over by one of the many

Nazi groups during World War Two. Mr. Corell ? The town

good guy?, the way I view it, sent the town postmen and

policemen on a boating trip, keeping them from the invasion

(we learn later that ?The town good guy? is really a

back-stabber later in the book). After the invasion, the

Nazis request a meeting with the town?s Mayor, Mayor

Orden. Joseph and Doctor Winter, two of Mayor Orden?s

colleagues, await the arrival of Nazis too. The two meet

Captain Bentick, a rank lower than Colonel Lanser who is

the one who had requested the meeting. Bentick searches

the home. During the meeting Annie, Mayor Orden?s cook,

becomes very aggravated by the soldiers who wait outside

the front porch of the Mayor?s home, and throws a pot of

boiling water at them. Chapter Two: In this chapter,

Steinbeck explains the characteristics of each of the Nazis.

Major Hunter, an engineer, ?arithmatician?, and seemingly

indifferent to the fact that he is a soldier. Captain Bentick, a

family man, was old and kind. Bentick also has certain

admiration to the English. Captain Loft, a young man, took

much pride in the fact that he was a soldier. He dreams of

his own death on the battlefield, where he is respected.

?Lieutenants Prackle and Tonder were snot noses,

undergraduates, lieutenants, trained in the politics of the day?

(Quoted out of the book; there seemed to be no sense

putting it in my own words since it was right there, and

couldn?t have been worded any better). Colonel Lanser

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