Resilience In The Gathering

Nathaniel, a teenage boy who has recently moved to the quiet outer suburban town of Cheshunt has developed and used resilience to overcome the challenges and problems that he faces in Isobelle Carmody’s The Gathering. The town is a mysterious place, and seems to have a lurking evil which Nathaniel and his friends strive to fight. Nathaniel uses resilience to overcome many challenges thrown at him in the book. Two examples would be his rocky relationship with his mother and when his much loved pet dog ’The Tod’ is murdered in front of him by the people that Nathaniel and his friends are trying to fight.

From the start of the book, we read that Nathaniel and his mother don't have a typical mother to son relationship. Due to reasons unknown until