Interstellar Pig :: essays research papers

Barney, a teenage boy, and his p bents rent a summer confine in Dunstable. Him and his p arents are staying in a put up that belonged to headmaster Latham. Captain Latham had a trading ship when Dunstable was an important port.The captains fatheaded younger brother was a sailor on his ship. And he went half-baked and was locked in the front bedroom where barney sleeps for 20 years. When the Captain was prohibited in the South Pacific they picked up a shipwrecked sailor. The guy they rescued bunked with the pallid brother. And the next morning the sailor was dead the brother had strangled him.The wacky brother was sentenced to be keelhauled scarcely he did not die was fair(a) permently brain damaged. And clawed around the windows for the rest of his life.They realize from Ted (the guy the are renting the house from) that their neighbors wanted this cabin a lot but Barney and his parents ended up getting it. When Barney meets his neighbors he thinks that they are a brusk bi t weird but his parents dont think that they are too bad of people in fact they sort of handle them. Barney describes them as animal like the way they move and that they seem to be fasenated in the sky and water. Barney is observing the neighbors and states that they had a purplish cast in the fading light, which is strange because humans arent purple unless in that location defective. afterward several hours Zena knocks on the front door and barney describes her eye color as deep lavender.His neighbors also have a strange game they hightail it thats called Interstellar Pig. Their neighbors are about in their mid-twenties there is one girl, Zena, and two boys, Joe and Manny. Barney is rummaging threw the neighbors house when they leave to try and find out wherefore they are so interested in the house and why they just stopped and was like in a trance when they apothegm the markings on the window. Barney finds some old document when he is searching threw their house and finds o ut that these neighbors wanted his house because there is some hidden occult in it, which Barney doesnt have a clue what it is till he is looking at the scratch marks around the window and relies that they summit to a large boulder at the southern tip of the island.