Knife Of Never Letting Go Book Report

People get mad and that’s a thing that happens to everybody. However to which point can your emotions drive you to do? As emotions overwhelm people, they can cause the person to do things that are not what they actually meant to do. I’ve recently read a book called, The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. This book is about a boy named Todd who lives in a world where he thinks everyone can hear his thoughts and vise versa and it’s up to him and his companions to figure out the hidden origins of the city he was born in, Prentisstown. In this book, I believe that the theme of the story is that it’s important to stay calm and make rational situations, no matter how dire the situation may be.

At around the beginning of the story, Todd meets

From this, Todd and Manchee could've easily overpowered and killed her. However, Todd rethinks this situation and gives her a chance. Even after getting snuck attack upon (page 72), he still manages to keep composure and become calmer. You can see how he tries to calm himself down on page 73, “‘Hey,’ I say. My voice shaky from the charge running through me. I am Todd Hewitt, I think. I am almost a man. ‘Hey’ I say again trying to be a little calmer.” Even when on the inside, he wants to rage, he keeps it in and stays as calm as possible, granting him the first stepping stone of friendship with Viola. It might not have gone as smoothly if Todd had hit Viola at the start. In fact, just a little while later, Todd and Viola get attacked by one of the antagonists, Aaron. On page 81, Aaron already captured Viola and Todd was just a little bit from sneaking up and hitting him from behind, rescuing Viola in a simple matter. Yet, Todd’s emotions interfere, making him unable to do it, because of the fear. This results in Todd nearly getting drowned by Aaron. From pages 103-105, Todd starts to think about how the noise germ could kill Viola if she catches it. Viola

Had they panicked and made any sort of wrong moves, and they could have easily been shot there and then and the story would’ve been over as soon as it began. Now after gaining the trust of Hildy and her husband, Sam, and with the knowledge of how dangerous people of Prentisstown are, Todd accidentally reveals that that’s exactly where he came from to nearly the entire city. They get confronted by one of the people, Matthew Lyle who obviously was about to murder Todd right in front of the huge crowd (176). As he was doing this, he seemed like he wasn’t driven by the desire to protect, but the because of vengeance for what Prentisstown ended up doing to him. It’s later revealed that Prentisstown is the reason that his mum, Jessica Elizabeth, was killed (199 & 393). As he held that machete of his, he seemed to be out of control. He wasn’t being rational about it. After Hildy cools the situation, out of relief, he just starts crying. But even after that, it seemed like Matthew just couldn’t let Todd go. As Todd cleans up the barn like he was told to, Matthew uses that opportunity to ambush him (197). This time, without Hildy to stop Matthew’s outrageous emotions, someone had to act. As soon as Todd provokes him, Matthew loses it and attacks Todd immediately. From that, we can assume that