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Essay On The Knife Of Never Letting Go

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What would you do if every single person around you could hear your every thoughts, and you could hear all of theirs? You see, on the fictional ‘New World’ from the novel The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, there is a thing called Noise. Noise is what makes every thought a person can think of be heard by those around them. However, women can’t be heard. Now, this story, to me, revolves around the choices we make, and how those choice can define who we are and what will become of us. As said in the sequel, “We are the choices we make”, page 18, The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness. Now, I’m going to give 4 examples of times in the novel where making a certain choice ended up showing us who Todd really was. Throughout the story, we see our main character Todd make tough decisions, decisions that describe what kind of character he is. The first major decision he had to make was when he was forced to leave his two father figures in the town, Ben and Cillian, when Davy Prentiss Jr. comes to ‘take’ Todd, pages 54-55, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness. He seemed …show more content…

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