There are many social issues presented in the novel I am reading.
The one I want to highlight is kind of science v.s. religion. This not the general battle between creation and evolution, this is between what your God says, and what you believe to be proven.
The Chowder Society is being killed off, one-by-one. By a ghost of their past. They are conflicted, because they do not know whether they believe its truly a ghost, or if its all in their heads.
The religion aspect is that most religions tell them that ghosts do not exist: they go to either heaven or hell. Science has no clue, but no proof. "Which was the question that Broome County deputy coroner was asking himself, faced with the corpse of a thirty-four-year-old man from which all the internal organs and all the blood had been removed." (Straub 251)
All involved must face the mental battle between what they believe in order to make sense of the acts that are occurring. Can science explain being exsanguinated?
Straub, Peter. Ghost story. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979. Print.
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