I’m the King of the castle by Susan Hill Essay

Im the King of the castle by Susan Hill is a chilling tale of a childhood bully. The story tells the tale of how a boy called Kingshaw is driven to suicide by his companion Hooper. Kingshaw and his mother moved from their rented apartment in London to Hoopers cold and evil home the Warnings so Mrs. Kingshaw could abide company for Mr. Hooper and a mother role for Hooper while her son Kingshaw could provide a companion for Hooper to pull in a friendly family home.The parents are very superficial both lacking their partner for many years and they both lacked the ability to show their love to their children. sort of of showing their love they turned a blind eye to the bullying of Kingshaw and pretended that every thing was fine because their relationship was becoming closer. Little did they chouse that the closer they became the more chilling and frightening the relationship between Hooper and Kingshaw became. Early on in the book Hooper and Kingshaw learn their roles of Bully and victim respectively and end-to-end the book the story relies on the balance of power between Kingshaw and Hooper.In my opinion the story Im the King of the castle revolves around hate, rigourousness and isolation. Before Kingshaw came to Warnings Hooper and him were both happy but the parents were alone, as the parents became closer and grew to love each other Kingshaw and Hooper grew to lean their roles as Hooper was not an experienced bully and Kingshaw was not experienced at being a victim to torment and isolation. Even though the final tragedy of the death of Kingshaw is mainly down to the torment of hopper the parents failures contributed to the final tragedy a great deal, as many of their failures were fatal. Both parent did not know how to bridge the chilling suspension between them and the children, neither want to show their love as they are to self absorbed and neither wanted or even tried to provide stability.Even though Im the King of the castle was quiet depressin g I enjoyed it nether less because I found the story very moving and alarming. I aspect the book was very well scripted and it flowed well. I thought that many of the characters and their situations were convincing even though I thought the final tragedy was a bit extreme. I thought the book was set in the exactly the right scene, even though this book was written many years a go it still provides the everlasting chill of a childhood bullying tale and brings you to think of all the recent tragedys caused by bulling.I would recommend this book to anybody interested in the horrors of child hood bullying and to a bully or a Victim who need to learn a lesson. I think this book is suitable for any one above the age of twelve. I would quiet like to rake another of Susan hills books such as the Woman in Black as the theater production was chilling and I enjoyed her style of writing.