 What is the significance of the Washington Monument flying into space at the end of the story?
An instant later, the shattering roar and blast of the explosion struck the hospital buildings in a wave of force and the bursting crash of a thousand windows was lost in the fury of the explosion and the wild screams of the frightened and demented patients. At 5:30 a.m., a plane landed at a nearby airfield and a platoon of Atomic Energy Commission experts, military intelligence men, four FBI agents and an Army full colonel disembarked. "It's impossible and unbelievable," Colonel Thomas Thurgood said for the fifteenth time, later that morning, as he looked around the group of experts gathered in the tent erected on the hill overlooking the crater.
 It shows the reader that it is certainly something about his gaze that causes these events
 It shows that someone else has powers similar to Thaddeus  It shows the reader that it is certainly something about his gaze that causes these events  The government is able to confirm their suspicions that he is able to create different types of powerful reactions, not just bombs  It is a politically charged building which makes it a more severe issue to the men studying him