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A Monster Calls - Literary Analysis Research “A Monster Calls” is a one of the finest written novels by Patrick Ness. Readers find this book persuasive, controlling and extraordinary. Patrick presents his views very beautifully about a boy’s dilemma to face and realize the truth of his mother’s death. And a monster in his hallucination helps him to overcome his fear and face the truth and in the end, the single parent brought up boy, Conor recognizes his mom’s imminent death, which is imperative. The thesis statement of this paper is- “A Monster Call’s” by Patrick Ness reflects the emotional side of single parent families and their children’s through the …show more content…
These children live with either mother or father and lacks needed full warmth from the parents. Amato (27) claims that single parenting family children face many societal challenges at various places (schools, marriage and so on) and events (picnic, religious ceremony, festivals and so on). Moreover, these children certainly go through the psychological distress and their life sometimes turns out to be traumatic. In some cases, death of mother or father causes a great psychological harm to a child. Patrick shows these features of single parent family in his novel …show more content…
A single parent family faces many dire mental consequences in unhealthy conditions and especially children in such families come across many undesirable circumstances. Patrick, with the help of Corner and his family circumstances clearly shows the environment in the single parent family, where children go through various difficulties. These types of families need additional support from the outside such as Corner gets from the monster to stay out of his personal problems. I think, the society needs to think over the single parent family concept crucially as it hurts everyone in the family emotionally, physically, and