Meaning Of The End Of All Things

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The End of All Things has a meaning to the story, in the story it discusses about terrible horrid weather catastrophes that caused a plethora of destruction to the landscape. The first was a winter that never ended even when it came to be summer it was still icy cold with a biting wind and nothing to divide the cold to make it the least bit bearable. Second was continuous earthquakes and floods, the earthquakes would make mountains tremble, and rocks would be torn from the earth, and the sea would engulf fields and forests. The last was a great fire would sweep over all land and anything in its path would instantaneously be destroyed. While all of this destruction of everything that humanity had grown to make and become would soon all be wiped

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