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The Playground of The GodsCathy Spellmans, The Playground of The Gods is an exuberant novel whichdeals with murder in a remote tropical paradise but can come along be read as anillustration of mans ignorance and invasion of nature."Do it big, or stay in bed."( Larry Kelly). These are words that ThorosGagarian lives by. He is one of the wealthiest custody in the world and whenpicking his private paradise, only one coiffure on earth could serve his needs andfantasies. This place is Mora Utu-The playground of the Gods-a third estate jewel inthe placid blue expanse of the South Pacific, the closely luxurious and seductiveprivate preserve anywhere on the planet. at once his prized-possession has beenfound, Thoros immediately ships the island natives to a different island andbrings in his construction crews to hurriedly have his paradise in order tohave it ready for a celebratory visit by 12 of his close friends.     In the introduction to the story, Cat hy Spellman makes build the nonionthat the protagonist, Thoros Gagarian views himself as an indestructible god.Her descriptions of his haste purchase of his Island paradise shows a man forwhom their is no boundaries. His arrogance is further displayed in his buildingof his compound.Spellmans contribution of reason comes from a spiritual Mexican couple who areThoross servants. They not only warn but predict of many consequences to theignorance to which nature is cosmos shown. Nature will not permit alteration on such a scale.(Emilio, 114).However, these warnings are ignored by the men who do not appreciate abizarre servant couple speaking of things which cash cant buy and power cantcontrol. This is when Spellmans utilization of irony comes into the picture.A member of the troupe catches a tropical fever, yet he cant be cured becausethe maneuver which possesses the antidote was destroyed in the creation of thefacility. This is followed by a lucky chain of events which is clima xed