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King of the Castle(susan Hill): Childhood Cruelty and Adult Failure
Summary: Although childhood cruelty is an obvious theme in Susan Hill's King Of the Castle, to a large extent that adult failure is as much emphasized upon throughout the novel as childhood cruelty is.
Although childhood cruelty is an obvious theme in the novel, I would have to agree to a large extent that adult failure is as much emphasized upon throughout the novel as childhood cruelty is.
The theme of childhood cruelty can be obviously seen when the boys were in Hang wood. Edmund Hooper is an intelligent boy who is like a predator stalking and hunting Kingshaw down. Hooper uses psychological warfare on Kingshaw, constantly tormenting him till he could no longer take it and had chosen to run away from Warings out of desperation. However, Hooper knew that Kingshaw was heading towards Hang woods and had stalked him there, like a predator hunting down its prey. Kingshaw was trapped and Hooper would not relent in his ways of torture. Although there was a change in power in Hang woods and Hooper was dependent on Kingshaw's resourcefulness for survival in...
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