Why Is Hood So Cruel

The Thief of Always is a suspenseful full of action book by Clive Barker, he writes a book about how the protagonist Harvey has to face the antagonist Hood to free the children's souls aching to come out. The quartet is so loyal to Hood but does Hood really treat them the way they should be, is Hood really that cruel. The quartet Rictus, Marr, Carna and Jive are all Hood’s servant’s that he created with his magic but Hood is so cruel he can’t even treat them nicely.
Since Hood treats his quartet badly that proves how heartless he really is. Some ways that he treats is cruel is that he treats his quartet badly,

First Rictus is treated badly, by stating some points. Now Rictus is treated badly and this also prove that Hood is cruel. Hood tries to kill Rictus.At the end Rictus says to Hood that he can kill Harvey“ Before Rictus could finish Hood took hold of his servant's head, and with one short motion simply twisted it off?“ (117).Since Hood even killed his servant that means that he probably didn’t like what Rictus said. So this proves that even if the servant did one thing against Hood there were serious consequences. Rictus betrays Hood becuase he is so cruel. When Hood dies for the first time and everyone …show more content…
Wherever it could-around her mouth and eyes, at her neck and wrists- it collapsed in clammy folds “ (43 ). Since Hood created Marr and he created Marr to be to gross and ugly that means that he didn’t care about how Marr felt. He didn’t want Marr to have any happiness. Marr has no dreams. When Harvey comes back to the house and is going to destroy Hood Marr says, "I dream of nothing..." her eyes sinking back into her disintegrating skull, " Hood didn’t let Marr have any dreams. This means that if Marr couldn’t have any dreams then that means that Marr would be very miserable.Marr is a character that has a disgusting affect to the book and is one of the characters that is treated the