Im the king of the castle - Themes
- Created by: lydiatayl0r
- Created on: 13-04-15 16:58
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- Themes
- Childhood
- Unstable families
- Kingshaw
- Fathers died
- Moves home a lot
- Distant from mother
- goes to boarding school
- Hooper
- Mothers died
- Product of a society that has failed to show him love
- Misfts
- Kingshaw
- Fathers died
- Moves home a lot
- Distant from mother
- goes to boarding school
- Extremes of character
- Kingshaw
- Misfts
- Extremes of character
- Kingshaw
- Novel changes our belief that childhood is always happy
- Fielding
- Shows that when loved and secure = confident well balanced people
- Unstable families
- Isolation
- Setting
- Surrounded by countryside
- Some distance from any other house
- Surrounded by countryside
- Between characters
- Broken relationships
- Helena + Kingshaw
- Charles doesn't think think she understands him
- He had grown use to being left to cope alone
- Charles doesn't think think she understands him
- Mr Hooper and Edmund
- Feels the cycle has been repeated (like with his father)
- Unhappy memories
- Feels the cycle has been repeated (like with his father)
- Hooper + Kingshaw
- Could have comforted each other and filled the void of each others lonliness
- Mr Hooper + his father
- Strained
- Unhappy memories
- Strained
- Helena + Kingshaw
- Broken relationships
- Fielding
- Makes Kingshaw feel loved and valued
- Setting
- Evil
- Hooper + Kingshaw
- Physical
- Fist fight near start of book
- Psychological
- Kingshaw feels trapped
- Can never escape the pain = results in suicide being only option
- Entrapment
- I know all about you
- Surrounded by eyes
- Kingshaw feels trapped
- Physical
- Hooper has little conscience
- Feels no remorse
- Can never escape the pain = results in suicide being only option
- Feels no remorse
- Hooper + Kingshaw
- Nature
- The Red Room
- Collection of dead moths
- Arranged in glass cabinets
- Trapped
- Un-natural surroundings
- Kingshaw
- Trapped
- Kingshaw
- Disintegrate when Hooper touches them
- Hooper causes destruction
- Arranged in glass cabinets
- Collection of dead moths
- The Crow
- Symbolic
- Mirrors the boys relationship
- Hooper is the predator (crow) and Kingshaw is their prey
- Mirrors the boys relationship
- Symbolic
- Hang Wood
- Kingshaw feels a sense of inner peace and freedom
- Liked it here
- Heavenly
- Where Kingshaw becomes the leader
- Liked it here
- Only place Hooper showed any kindness
- Fed the bird crumbs from his hand
- Connotations of death
- Name evokes thought of suicide
- Kingshaw feels a sense of inner peace and freedom
- Fieldings farm
- Cyclical pattern of nature is evident
- Although animals are slaughtered, Fielding also has the capacity to love animals as pets too
- Has a pet hamster and tortoise
- Occurs as it would in nature
- Although animals are slaughtered, Fielding also has the capacity to love animals as pets too
- Cyclical pattern of nature is evident
- Yew trees
- Symbolic of unfortunate events
- They are poisonous
- Went through the yew trees
- Walking into his own death
- Went through the yew trees
- They are poisonous
- Symbolic of unfortunate events
- Fields
- Surround Warings
- The natural imagery paints the situation (isolation) of the house
- And beyond this were only more fields
- The natural imagery paints the situation (isolation) of the house
- Described as 'copse' = semantic closeness to the word corps
- Untitled
- Provides Kingshaw with a sense of comfort
- Escapism
- Like so many pillows
- Escapism
- Surround Warings
- Weather
- Kingshaws increasing sense of isolation is echoed by the stormy weather and the nearing of Autumn
- The Red Room
- Childhood
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