God's Sake Chapter Summaries

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At first glance, the title of the book gives you a feeling of mystery and wonder. In the first chapter we are given a description of the fear of vampires and the horror of what they exist for. This chapter makes us think something strange is going on. As we get further in to the book Peter meets Sophia and learns of his father’s past and more about hostages. When Sophia and Peter visit the graveyard attempting to find some hostages themselves where things go wrong and all the dead and buried come back as hostages from their graves. This point in the book is a key experience for Peter. Another is when Sophia and Peter are being pursued by the supposedly ‘dead’ wood cutter Radu, and are forced to run to Peter’s house where he learns that hostages…show more content…
As Radu is escaping from Willem the miller (who is now a hostage) through the woods we get an idea of Chust “sending snow flying in little spurts” tells us that Chust is a cold and snowy place, another is “all he saw was a hundred thousand Birch trees” telling us that a very dense forest surrounds the village of Chust. What’s more, Radu’s death is very bizarre when it ends he is finally caught out by his pursuer and his heart ripped from his chest this moment in the book is a bit gory and shows gothic horror, “the man lunged forward and shoved his hand like a knife into Radu’s chest, feeling for his heart” this I find is disturbing but is a very good ending to chapter one as it really grabs the reader’s attention. Radu’s funeral is not normal and no one seems to care or have sympathy for him because they believe him to be a suicide” there was no coffin” and “Radu was turned over so he lay face down” I think these quotes tell us that this funeral is not the norm’ as this quote proves even more so “ Teador placed the twigs on and around the body” the sexton seems to have placed thorny twigs on the body which makes peter question his father but he does not reply. This adds even more suspicion and uncertainty to the
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