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Analysis Of 'The Coming Of The Triffid'
1. The End Begins
Bill Masen could finally open his eyes again. He was in the hospital. After a triffid blinded him temporarily, a bandage had been pulled around his head. He decided, since no one came to do it, to take it off. He saw no one in the hospital and it was quiet.
He found out everybody was blinded by watching the green flashes last night. The flashes came from comet debris.

2. The Coming of the Triffids
Bill was thinking about his past. He tells how the triffids have been spread to the whole world. And how he came in the triffid farming. (while he was a kid he met once a triffid).

3. The Groping City
Bill goes to the London city and he sees everywhere blind people. He helps a girl, Josella, who can still see as well. But her father died when the girl came back to the house. Bill and Josella stick together. They try to mix into a group of blind people. He doesn’t see the future very bright. He doesn’t know how realistic this happening actually is but is also excited about the
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Shadows Before
Bill and Josella make a plan. First they have to find a place to stay. An empty flat is what they find. Than they get clothes for themselves. When they get back in the flat Bill see’s a couple at the window. And the couple jumps out of the window.

5. A Light in the Night
Bill and Josella decide that they have to leave the city. They think it is saver to go somewhere else in the country than London.
But in the night they see a flash light. Bill thinks it can be a trap.

6. Rendezvous
They plan to go to the place where the flashlight came from that night: the University of London. They meet a group with blind people and sighted men are leading them. But they find out that the sighted men have plans to leave the next morning.
7. Conference the community from the University had a meeting to talk about new rules they had to apply. Rules so they would survive. Bill and Josella are going to ‘marry’. They decided to marry when they were thinking about the

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