"->Chaos. Everyone's running, crashing into each other, falling, screaming. I'm part of the madness Clutching Art in my arms. Fleeing blindly. Away from the grey light and the four-armed monster. Trying to stay on my feet. Weeping, partly because Logan has been killed, mostly because I'm terrified.
A girl smashes into me and knocks me to the ground. I manage to fall with Art on top of me, so he isn't injured. He's laughing----he thinks this is a game. I start to yell at the girl, but then I see blood gushing from her throat, her arms thrashing. She topples over. Flops about, then goes very still.
I look away before I can focus on her face. I don't want to know who she is. Right now I want to concentrate on the one thing that matters more than anything else ---getting out of here before the monster kills me.
I push myself to my feet, chest heaving. Looking for the best way out. It's hard to tell. I'm surrounded on all sides by panic. I count two, three, four dead children --- then stop. I don't want to know the numbers.
The monster's on top of a boy --- Dave English, who was so afraid of death. the beast's fingers are buried in Dave's stomach. It's gazing around, white eyes darting from one child to another. Like it's choosing its next victim. or looking for someone in particular." <-
This passage shows the main character Cornelius Fleck or Kernal for short, and his horrible introduction to murder. While this is also the first time he seen someone get murdered,he saw all this carnage caused by a demon, slaughtering nearly everything in a very gruesome way. It will prepare Kernal into what he will be facing later and that he will have to deal with gruesome murders such as these, since he came into contact with the demons.
The passage develops the theme to that of a lonely child whom only wishes for friends to that of horror, trying to ensure his brother's as well as his own survival against demons. The theme shows the sudden change when they mention the demon killing innocent people such as children and whatnot, showing that the demon shows no mercy.
It affects the plot as it is one of the more important scenes showing his spiraling path of his journey to survive and to ensure that others he cares about survives also. It shows that he doesn't want to know whom died just live so the demon won't kill him.
The author Darren Shan just described how an actual demon wouldn't let anyone live, that it would slaughter everyone not caring if its a woman, or a child. The author described it as a giant massacre that not many can imagine if they didn't read this.
The passage didn't develop the setting much but it developed the context in a way that it showed what kernal was going to expect in the future.
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