I Am the King of the Castle Essay

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English Essay: I’m The King of the Castle ‘Explore TWO attempts by Kingshaw to escape the clutches of Hooper. Look at how Susan Hill shows him feeling a sense of freedom when he is alone and the opposite when he is with Hooper’. In Susan Hill’s novel ‘I’m The King of the Castle’ we see that Hooper bullies Kingshaw and that Kingshaw is fed up and wants to leave. The question wants us to show two attempts by Kingshaw to run away from Hooper. The first incident was when he wants to get away from Warings and that he gets attacked by the crow in chapter 3 and the second was when he was trying to escape from Warings to get to Hang Wood in chapter 6. My essay will about how Kingshaw feels free without Hopper and how he is trapped when he is with Hooper. Hooper follows Kingshaw every time he tries to escape and eventually Hooper finds Kingshaw when he is escaping to Hang Wood. In the third chapter Susan Hill shows us that Kingshaw doesn’t like Warings. Kingshaw is going to try and escape from Hooper and while doing so, he gets attacked by a crow. “He bent his head and plodded on, one-one, one-one” page 39. Susan Hill shows us that he is happy and that he has no idea of what is going to happen next. He thinks he is free and is enjoying his freedom. ”Kingshaw did not look back” page 39. This shows that Kingshaw is very confident that he is going to escape from the clutches of Hooper and that he will be free. He did not have any second thoughts on what he was going to do. He knew that today would be the day that he would be free from Hooper. “He could feel the sweat running down his back”, page 40. This happens after he sees the crow but the crow is not attacking him. He gets a bit nervous as it’s a big crow and he is scared. Susan Hill use literary techniques to give more description of the character. The crow pokes him and he then runs towards Warings where he sees
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