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Susan Hill 'An Analysis Of Kingshaw Is Being Attacked By The Crow'

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In this extract, Kingshaw is being brutally attacked by a crow. During this scene, Susan Hill narrates Kingshaw 's feelings, displaying his vulnerability in relation to the crow. The situation turns tense as the crow’s attacks start becoming more serious. Kingshaw demonstrates his fear, through his actions and thoughts. Although Hill is describing Kingshaw being attacked by a literal crow, the crow is an extended metaphor for Hooper. Hill uses language techniques to create these feelings throughout this extract. Hill creates both, tension and fear, by using short paragraphs. These kind of paragraphs help when the author is trying to announce an important event in the novel, they also are commonly used to give a sense of action, tension or suspense. An example of a short paragraph is: “Then, there was a single …show more content…

This quote uses a lot of ambitious vocabulary to make simple words become stronger and give more detailed information about the situation. Hill describes Kingshaw’s forehead as a “Damp mess of tears and sweat,” , this implies that he’s been constantly running a lot from the crow, a person runs away from something when they feel uneasy or scared about something, in this case it’s the crow. As well, damp mess of tears, implies that Kingshaw has been crying a lot. Someone of Kingshaw’s age would cry about being scared but, as his past suggests, he’s been through a lot of hard situations, specially through Hooper’s endless bullying, but he’s never cried about it. Therefore, he must be extremely scared about the crow. Also, “Kingshaw broke into a run.” the unusual word, or the ambitious vocabulary, is broke the word means to change suddenly therefore, Kingshaw suddenly started running, as if he’s fearing the crow might come soon. So this shows his fear, as he starts running away from the crow because he’s scared, Hill manages to use ambitious vocabulary to create

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