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This is no dream about monsters under the bed... this is very different! It is the near future,on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, many people have heard of this so called beast and want to know what it is or what it means. Initially the beast represents fear. The beast is ever changing and has countless meanings and interpretations behind it. One of the biggest “beasts” in a person’s lives is our own fears. Document A states that “children begin to people the darkness of light and forest with spirits and demons which had previously appeared only in their dreams and fairytales.” This Document also says “They externalize these fears into a figure of a “beast”. A human beings fears are tremendously powerful. Many people often find themselves

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