Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Who Moved Our Cheese?We have no idea how someone could write a book set in Wisconsin without once mentioning cheese, but Mark Frost has done it. Will must move from sunny California to the frigid t...
What's Up With the Title?
What the heck is a paladin prophecy?The short answer: we have no clue.Yet.The long answer is a little more complicated. In the secret image Will uncovers from dead kid Ronnie Murso, he sees the bad...
What's Up With the Epigraph?
Every crime is punished,Every virtue rewarded,Every wrong redressed,In silence and certainty. — Ralph Wal...
What's Up With the Ending?
The end of The Paladin Prophecy is like a season finale from the TV show Lost. There are way more questions raised than answered. As the plot zooms to a close, the teens continue to manifest specia...
Tough-o-Meter
Mark Frost is known as the co-creator of Twin Peaks, a TV show that featured, among other things, a dancing dwarf speaking backwards. The Paladin Prophecy does in fact have a dwarf, but this dwarf...