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John Huntington- The Unity of Childhood's End (4961 words) |
 | Childhood's End is a novel which on one level may be merely an exercise in satisfying a special market but on another engages ideas of deep concern to the author himself. |
| Childhood's End, while by using the two-stage myth of progress it satisfies the demands of progress and avoids the frustrations of attainment, escapes the disabling dichotomy of structure of 2001 by introducing a middle term which joins the two states of vision. |
| But the novel as a whole does not preach despair because, while it repeats the initial situation on a higher plane, it also performs the miraculous transformation of human into Overmind so that the first and the last terms of the proportion are seen as spiritually the same. |
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