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Dark Power Collection: The Society by Bill Myers

Dark Power Collection: The Society by Bill Myers Book report by Sarah (14)

16 year old Rebecca and her little brother Scott William are new kids in town. They and their parents lived in South America. They were missionaries, medical and spiritual. The whole family loved it, up until the crash. Mr. Williams got in a plane crash and died on an island. This caused the Williams family to move to Crescent Bay, California. They didn’t really fit in. Becka was a runner in track. She was a star when she was focused. Scott fell into the best friend spot in nerdy Darryl’s life, and is mostly with him the whole book.
Through track, Becka meets Julie Mitchell, a very popular, pretty, and fast running girl. They quickly become best friends. Everything is great until Becka realizes the charms around Julie and her group’s neck. They were bags tied to a string, a superstitious good luck charm. She is concerned because she’s seen the same charms on witches and dark magic practitioners in South America. Becka struggle is the choice between telling her friends for their own safety and becoming vulnerable to become friendless and bullied, or keep her mouth shut and let her friends have all the good luck they want.
On the other hand, Scott has some issues too. Darryl drags him to an old bookstore, were a group called The Society meets. They’re a handful of satanic, troubled teenagers. He was a little freaked out about their whole practices, but he just stood at a distance and minded his business. They gave Scott a bad feeling and he didn’t like the way they thought they were the bomb. He knew there was something major up when they started playing Ouija boards and he left.
After that day, Scott starts to have dreams about his father. He is on a football field with his dad, who happens to have a full set of armor on himself. He encourages Scott to put on armor also. The game starts and the football turns into a sword. Confused, Scott gets pummeled by the other team, huge giants with the faces of the kids at the Society. He could hear his dad calling out, “Remember the playbook! Use the sword!” Then Scott wakes up and keeps this dream to himself and his online chat friend, “Z”, who happens to know everything about Scott and his family and his problems.
Scott makes fun of then for believing in it and playing an ouija board, so they want to prove it to him. They didn’t want their power questioned and Scott was such a laid back guy that he wasn’t really alarmed when they started the game. But Scott was sucked in and captivated when the Society seems to summon the ghost of his father in the board and Scott is left feeling confused and depressed.
Anyways, though Becka didn’t want to, she told her friends about the truth of the necklaces. They didn’t take to too well. At first, they thought it was a joke, and they didn’t take it seriously. It made Becka angry, so she left. As a way to get back at her for laughing and not taking her seriously, Becka humiliated Julie at the next track meet by sabotaging her, and beating her with too much pride. Because of this, Julie and her friends stopped talking to her. She was all by her lonesome.
About this time is when Scott brings his dreams to Becka, and she finally remembers God in the midst of all their confusion, remembers that they hadn’t prayed, remembers how this all ties to the dream. Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devils schemes.” The football field isn’t really a football field. It is life. And the other team is the devil, the world trying to take you down. We can be ready for these attacks be reading the playbook, the bible, and putting on the armor of God. Fighting back with Gods power. They finally realize what they have to do. They spent the whole night praying that night.
The next day, Becka had a huge track meet, the one determining who runs state. When she finds out that Julie’s necklace is gone, the one that she’s never run without, she finds new faith in her heart. She encourages her bully. But Julie was unfocused and looked like she wasn’t going to make it to end of the race. Becka made a huge sacrifice, sprinting a lap up to her pace, but staying steady, not behind her or in front. She used all her energy to focus Julie once again on her steps and breathing. Although Becka used up all her energy and collapsed, Julie got back on track and took first thanks to Becka. They became friends again and Julie learned that she really didn’t need that dumb charm as much as she thought.
Scott learned that he needed to help those kids at the Society through another dream where the other team looked as if they were huddling in fear. Scott leaves to go yet again back to the Society to warn them about the dangers of what they were doing, to warn them of the demons in the board game, not the ghosts. Once there though, the leader of the group becomes demon possessed, becomes taken over by something else. Using his renewed faith in the power of God, he drove out the demon using the name of Jesus. He used Gods word against the forces of evil, the sword from his dream.
From this book I learned that I shouldn’t worry or care about the supernatural, the ghosts or charms or anything dark like that. Things aren’t always what they seem. I also learned that I should pray. The shield that was used in Scott’s football game was prayer and the promises of God. I shouldn’t be too proud to pray, to come to God with my problems because I can’t solve them on my own. I really, really, really enjoyed this book because it was easy to understand, being a teenager myself. After I’m done with the other 2 books in it, I’d be happy to let someone else read them.




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