I'm the King of the Castle
- Plot
- chap 1 - 4 = intro, conflict between hooper
and kingshaw, crow incident, bullying
starts
- 5 - 9 = Hang Wood, Hooper weak,
Kingshaw strong, shift of powers
- 10 - 13 = Kingshaw frustated and isolated,
Helena ignores him, Leydell Castle incident
- 14 - 17= Hooper in hospital, fielding,
adults wedding, Kingshaw suicides
- chap 1 - 4 = intro, conflict between hooper
and kingshaw, crow incident, bullying
starts
- Themes
- Nature of evil
- Red Room and moths, crow, thrush banging opening a
snail's shell, killing of turkeys, humiliation of elephants,
killing of fish...KINGSHAW'S DEATH AND HOOPER'S
TRIUMPH
- The crow swooping down/ scarlet/ dead moths/ thrush
banging opening a snail's shell
- The crow swooping down/ scarlet/ dead moths/ thrush
banging opening a snail's shell
- Red Room and moths, crow, thrush banging opening a
snail's shell, killing of turkeys, humiliation of elephants,
killing of fish...KINGSHAW'S DEATH AND HOOPER'S
TRIUMPH
- Childhood
- Mr. Hooper had problems in childhood, Hooper
is diff child, Kingshaw is always bullied and
isolated...Kingshaw - no one understands and is
isolated....Hooper - an evil boy...adults
misinterpretation...Fielding reminding of normal
child
- Mr. Hooper had problems in childhood, Hooper
is diff child, Kingshaw is always bullied and
isolated...Kingshaw - no one understands and is
isolated....Hooper - an evil boy...adults
misinterpretation...Fielding reminding of normal
child
- Power
- Hooper in Warings & Kingshaw outside, shift of power in Hang Wood, Mr. Hooper wanting
Warings, Helena wanting to be his wife
- "I'm the king of the castle" "[Hooper's] room was high up at the back [...] Above him, there were only the attics."/ to put a mark on this house/
"It's my window now (Kingshaw)" "Kingshaw knew that he had won, but he
did not feel the winner; Hooper had conceded him nothing."
- "I'm the king of the castle" "[Hooper's] room was high up at the back [...] Above him, there were only the attics."/ to put a mark on this house/
"It's my window now (Kingshaw)" "Kingshaw knew that he had won, but he
did not feel the winner; Hooper had conceded him nothing."
- Hooper in Warings & Kingshaw outside, shift of power in Hang Wood, Mr. Hooper wanting
Warings, Helena wanting to be his wife
- Isolation
- House isolated. hostility -
trapped, Mr. Hooper - no
wife, no attachment with
son....Hooper - prefers to
be alone, lack of love -
evil...Helena - superficial,
fake, no husband and
wants to settle...Kingshaw -
no one understands
him...hence lack of
love...Fielding - confident
because of love
- Some distance from any other house/ failed to ingratiate himself
with his son/ she looked at him and did not understand/ not so
very many friends "But there was nothing that he would say,
nobody to say it to." "He felt his own extreme isolation, high up in the cornfield"
- Some distance from any other house/ failed to ingratiate himself
with his son/ she looked at him and did not understand/ not so
very many friends "But there was nothing that he would say,
nobody to say it to." "He felt his own extreme isolation, high up in the cornfield"
- House isolated. hostility -
trapped, Mr. Hooper - no
wife, no attachment with
son....Hooper - prefers to
be alone, lack of love -
evil...Helena - superficial,
fake, no husband and
wants to settle...Kingshaw -
no one understands
him...hence lack of
love...Fielding - confident
because of love
- Parental-child relationships
- "For he knew that he had failed, from the very beginning, to ingratiate himself with Edmund." "I have
tried to avoid my own father's mistakes but I have only succeeded in replacing them with so many of my
own." "You shall have your friend" "But there was nothing that he would say, nobody to say it to." "He
wanted to go to his mother [...] But he never did go to her, he made himself cope alone."
- "For he knew that he had failed, from the very beginning, to ingratiate himself with Edmund." "I have
tried to avoid my own father's mistakes but I have only succeeded in replacing them with so many of my
own." "You shall have your friend" "But there was nothing that he would say, nobody to say it to." "He
wanted to go to his mother [...] But he never did go to her, he made himself cope alone."
- Being watched
- "Watched by Mrs. Kingshaw" "He could see a figure, looking down at him
from one of the top windows of the house." "He [Hooper] watched and watched."
- "Watched by Mrs. Kingshaw" "He could see a figure, looking down at him
from one of the top windows of the house." "He [Hooper] watched and watched."
- Nature of evil
- Characters
- Edmund
- cold, secretive, isolated, doesn't want to share his
house, evil....watchful approach, unresponsive to
father, he sees if he gain control, Hooper's fears
are forgotten, lack of conscience, doesn't reflect
so no thoughts of him, mind s blank when he
creates trouble, triumph on Kingshaw's death, still
a child,
- He had the same cold way of looking/ nobody must come here/ Hooper
watched/ blank/ and a spurt of triumph went through him
- He had the same cold way of looking/ nobody must come here/ Hooper
watched/ blank/ and a spurt of triumph went through him
- cold, secretive, isolated, doesn't want to share his
house, evil....watchful approach, unresponsive to
father, he sees if he gain control, Hooper's fears
are forgotten, lack of conscience, doesn't reflect
so no thoughts of him, mind s blank when he
creates trouble, triumph on Kingshaw's death, still
a child,
- Helena
- doesn't understand son, lives in future, fake, no man and lonely so wants to settle down,
unaware of impression she puts, false way of speaking
- she looked at him and did not understand/ how right I was to come here/ he hated
his mother more than anybody/ Kinghshaw's mother's an old tart/ we maybe anywhere, by then, we may not still be here.
- she looked at him and did not understand/ how right I was to come here/ he hated
his mother more than anybody/ Kinghshaw's mother's an old tart/ we maybe anywhere, by then, we may not still be here.
- doesn't understand son, lives in future, fake, no man and lonely so wants to settle down,
unaware of impression she puts, false way of speaking
- Kinshaw
- Victim, sympathy, isolated, keeps on going to the past, low self esteem because of fears, he has
friends, resourcefulness in hang wood, climbing, strange places (Miss Mellitt) – insecurity,
relationship with mother is uncomfortable, desire for affection – mother + fielding and likes when
Mr. Hooper holds him, sympathetic for animals, affection for Hooper in Hang Wood, wrong to think
about people suffer, innocent, fears – nightmares, moths, water, crow
- It's alright/ Hooper was always the winner/ resourceful/ dreadful caawing of the
crows/ peaceful, Devereux and Broughton Smith has invited him over/ nobody
had ever done that before/ Up here I;m the king/ If I shoot an arrow, I can kill
you/ let it go on, let me not have to be put down yet...out of shame and gratitude
and relief
- It's alright/ Hooper was always the winner/ resourceful/ dreadful caawing of the
crows/ peaceful, Devereux and Broughton Smith has invited him over/ nobody
had ever done that before/ Up here I;m the king/ If I shoot an arrow, I can kill
you/ let it go on, let me not have to be put down yet...out of shame and gratitude
and relief
- Victim, sympathy, isolated, keeps on going to the past, low self esteem because of fears, he has
friends, resourcefulness in hang wood, climbing, strange places (Miss Mellitt) – insecurity,
relationship with mother is uncomfortable, desire for affection – mother + fielding and likes when
Mr. Hooper holds him, sympathetic for animals, affection for Hooper in Hang Wood, wrong to think
about people suffer, innocent, fears – nightmares, moths, water, crow
- Mr. Hooper
- suffered as child, no wife, doesn't understand Edmund,
nothing achieved in life, Warings only pride, lonely so wants
Helena but no affection for her,
- "For he knew himself to be an innefectual man [...] a
man who had failed"
- "For he knew himself to be an innefectual man [...] a
man who had failed"
- suffered as child, no wife, doesn't understand Edmund,
nothing achieved in life, Warings only pride, lonely so wants
Helena but no affection for her,
- Fielding
- normal child, secure, confident, natural, bright, tries to protect Kingshaw but couldn't, contrast with
Hooper and Kingshaw, represents normal world beyond Warings, simple friendship are of no match to
Hooper's evil power
- You needn't be frightened of just what somebody else says
- You needn't be frightened of just what somebody else says
- normal child, secure, confident, natural, bright, tries to protect Kingshaw but couldn't, contrast with
Hooper and Kingshaw, represents normal world beyond Warings, simple friendship are of no match to
Hooper's evil power
- Edmund
- Setting
- Fielding's farm
- Bright, realistic, happy, cutting of animals is
normal, not fake, ordinary life
- Bright, realistic, happy, cutting of animals is
normal, not fake, ordinary life
- Hang Wood
- Wild, Kingshaw's territory,
cornfield hostile to Kingshaw,
Hooper vulnerable,ironically
kingshaw feels free when lost
- "Terrifying and safe"
- "Terrifying and safe"
- Wild, Kingshaw's territory,
cornfield hostile to Kingshaw,
Hooper vulnerable,ironically
kingshaw feels free when lost
- Warings
- family pride,
connection with death,
is isolated, Hooper's
territory, dark, dull and
scary
- "The idea that it was his, the idea of a family history
pleased him" "It smells un-lived in, of old things, like a
musuem""Warings was ugly, entirely graceless" "We
might as well be on the moon. He thought of Warings,
surrounded by high hedge, dark and inaccessible." "solidity and the gloom"
- "The idea that it was his, the idea of a family history
pleased him" "It smells un-lived in, of old things, like a
musuem""Warings was ugly, entirely graceless" "We
might as well be on the moon. He thought of Warings,
surrounded by high hedge, dark and inaccessible." "solidity and the gloom"
- family pride,
connection with death,
is isolated, Hooper's
territory, dark, dull and
scary
- Fielding's farm
- Symbolsim
- sounds and foxes far away -
parents (danger) in Warings,
- There was a slight persistent movement between the
yew tree branches/ longest lived of all trees/ "red paint for
the red room"/ stag's head witjh antlers branching out
- There was a slight persistent movement between the
yew tree branches/ longest lived of all trees/ "red paint for
the red room"/ stag's head witjh antlers branching out
- Yew trees: death
- Red Room: death and unnatural
- "removed from their
poison-fume bottles with
tweezers, spread out and then
pinned through their horny
bodieson to the card." "the sick room smelled sour"
- "removed from their
poison-fume bottles with
tweezers, spread out and then
pinned through their horny
bodieson to the card." "the sick room smelled sour"
- Crow: Hooper
- Stream: peaceful
- "I would like to find a stream or a
wood by myself. Anything to get
away."
- "I would like to find a stream or a
wood by myself. Anything to get
away."
- Rooms of the house: personalities
- Scourge of the marsh monster: evil
- Tractor: Kingshaw's power outside Warings
- Warts: unluck, death and childish fears
- 1st rabbit: Kingshaw is free, 2nd: dead rabbit,
death, wounds; 3rd: K could've killed Hooper
but realsed him
- Deer: predator, prey relationship
- Bracelets: MRs. Kingshaw's insecurities and relationship with Mr. Hooper
- Dreams: fears
- Fielding: normal life
- sounds and foxes far away -
parents (danger) in Warings,
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