“At the beginning of the cycle, darkness calls, drawing as if to love until the empty one comes: like a vessel that will gather the darkness within him, and allow the infection to grow and spread like a cancer. The ship has arrived, darkness is gathering now” (page 84). The evil that gathers in Cheshunt comes in shades of color: “fire red” and “uniform blue”. But each of these evils is overcome by “white love”. The mental battle of evil and how evil can be abusive, aggressive and violent (fire red) and the deception and dishonesty of authority (uniform – blue) can be difficult to fight, but good (white love) overcome everything and win. against every color of evil, even though every color makes white and every shade of evil constitutes good. In the novel The Gathering, the theme of good and evil and how they can be aggressive, abusive and violent is explored and developed. It is shown that even though people are evil in this story, there are different colors and forms of evil. The way one person shows evil may be completely different from another person and the extent of the evil varies. For example, Buddha and his tyrants are not as evil as Seth's father and Mr. Karle. Seth's father and Mr. Karle lead all the other evil cultists and show them how to be evil. Buddha and his bullying disciples are just following the evil and treating people the way they are shown to treat them. Buddha bullies Nathanial on the first day because he is weak and doesn't fit in. Mr. Karle, however, calls Nathanial's mother and "lies" to her, telling her that he thinks Nathanial is rude and disruptive in class and that he was detained for this. It is not only evil that is explored throughout the novel, but also good. People say that good comes in white and always rises above evil, but this is debatable. Although good always ultimately rises above evil, just like the Chain, white is made up of all the colors of the spectrum and therefore good can contain evil and people who are evil can come from good. A good example of this is shown by Danny in The Gathering. He treats young people like the police treated him and spreads his story so that everyone younger than him knows what happened and what the police are capable of..