The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is a captivating story about a 12-year-old boy Todd Hewitt who lives in a world where every man and animals’ thoughts can be heard in a never-ending stream of Noise. The Noise is chaotic because in our minds there is so many things going on you can only describe it as chaotic. It really shapes the New World because if you can hear everyone’s chaotic thoughts along with your own it would be chaos and that is exactly what the Noise is and what the New World is. This story of the chaotic New World is told from Todd’s point of view. It all starts when Todd discovers an impossibility in the swamp which he describes as a ‘hole in the Noise’. When he tell his adoptive parents Ben and Cillian they tell
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Later, the girl reveals her name is Viola but for a while she stays mute. Todd has a hard time getting used to the fact that Viola doesn’t have Noise because to him silence meant you were empty, you felt nothing, you were basically nothing. Right after Todd earns Viola’s trust, Aaron comes back angry and starts strangling Todd, nearly killing him before Manchee bites Aaron in the calf. When Aaron realizes Viola had escaped he takes off after her and captures her. Todd follows and was close to killing Aaron in the back as he was tying up Viola. He gets into another deadly brawl with the priest and he was able to beat the priest. The rising action of the story is when Todd has the choice to kill the still-breathing but badly injured Aaron with the knife. He believes strongly that Aaron deserves to die but he doesn’t have the heart to do it. I think the rising action starts here because this is the beginning of Prentisstown’s pursuit for Todd and Viola. This is the beginning because the situation he was just in will make him question himself and will have him fight both mentally and physically. The knife’s power was really emphasised when he was deciding if he should just end the priest life, he had the power to change the course of the story if he’d let the knife ‘take control’ and killed Aaron. I believe that he didn’t kill Aaron because he was still a boy, and he didn’t understand how much power the knife gave him. As the story goes on there are situations similar to this one and it shows you the growth of his
Later, the girl reveals her name is Viola but for a while she stays mute. Todd has a hard time getting used to the fact that Viola doesn’t have Noise because to him silence meant you were empty, you felt nothing, you were basically nothing. Right after Todd earns Viola’s trust, Aaron comes back angry and starts strangling Todd, nearly killing him before Manchee bites Aaron in the calf. When Aaron realizes Viola had escaped he takes off after her and captures her. Todd follows and was close to killing Aaron in the back as he was tying up Viola. He gets into another deadly brawl with the priest and he was able to beat the priest. The rising action of the story is when Todd has the choice to kill the still-breathing but badly injured Aaron with the knife. He believes strongly that Aaron deserves to die but he doesn’t have the heart to do it. I think the rising action starts here because this is the beginning of Prentisstown’s pursuit for Todd and Viola. This is the beginning because the situation he was just in will make him question himself and will have him fight both mentally and physically. The knife’s power was really emphasised when he was deciding if he should just end the priest life, he had the power to change the course of the story if he’d let the knife ‘take control’ and killed Aaron. I believe that he didn’t kill Aaron because he was still a boy, and he didn’t understand how much power the knife gave him. As the story goes on there are situations similar to this one and it shows you the growth of his