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Bless the Beasts and the Children by Glendon Swarthout - Review.  

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John Spinner PSY 323-800 Book Analysis Bless the Beasts and the Children by Glendon Swarthout is a fictional account of a group of adolescent boys on a mission to save a herd of Buffalo from slaughter. The main characters are a group of outcasts at the Box Canyon Boys Camp known as the "Bedwetters." The group is comprised of five adolescent campers(Lawrence Teft III, Stephen Lally Jr., Billy Lally, Gerald Goodenow, and Sammy Shecker), who are led in there endevours by a slightly older counselor named John Cotton. After witnessing the Annual Arizona Fish and Game Department's three- day Buffalo Hunt(which is more a slaughter then a hunt) the "Bedwetters", with the encouragement of Cotton, decide to save the remaining buffalo on the Reserve from a cruel undignified death. Many aspects of Adolescent development are seen as the plot on folds through the characterization of the "bedwetters." Some aspects of adolescent development...

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