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1. www.supersummary.com › the-shell-collectorThe Shell Collector Summary | SuperSummary

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   The Shell Collector. Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.

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   The Shell Collector. Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.

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   The shell collector hears the muezzin (the English word for the Muslim official who calls the daily hours of prayer to the Islamic faithful) in the nearby town of Lamu and explains that it is...

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   1984. Chapter 3. Summary and Analysis Part 1: Chapter 3. This section begins with Winston Smith dreaming of the deaths of his mother and sister. Although the past is unclear in his mind, he believes that he was somehow responsible.

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   Plot Summary. A 63-year-old blind American biologist collects shells and snails in Kenya. By accident, a visiting American woman suffering from malaria gets bitten by one of his cone shells; the venom miraculously cures her.

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   The Shell Collector Summary & Study Guide includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis, quotes, character descriptions, themes, and more.

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   • The Shell Collector is based on a real person, known only as 'Diane'. The story originated from an incident where she walked the beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with a heavy heart. As she traced a path across the sand, she kicked up a shell with a message inside.

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   What happens in the final scene of the shell collector?

   • In the final scene, the shell collector encounters a snail that is blind like him. The Shell Collector is an alternatively hopeful and grim examination of the randomness of nature—the randomness that took away the protagonist’s sight and took his son away from him, but that also cured Nancy and Seema of a devastating illness.

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   Who is “the shell collector” by Anthony Doerr?

   • “The Shell Collector” (2002), a short story by American author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of a blind shell expert living in exile with his dog in Kenya who becomes something of a celebrity after he uses deadly cone venom to cure a local eight-year-old girl of Malaria.

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   Among the summaries and analysis available for The Shell Collector, there are 1 Full Study Guide, 1 Short Summary and 5 Book Reviews. Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc.), the resources below will generally offer The Shell Collector chapter summaries, quotes, and analysis of themes, characters, and symbols.