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Mind Map by archita.kmr, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by archita.kmr
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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/ his room was high up at the back/ to put a mark on this
house/ feel the winner/ it's my window now
- I'm the king of the castle/ his room was high up at the back/ to put a mark on this
house/ feel the winner/ it's my window now
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- A man who had failed/ dull man, a man who got by/ ineffectual
- A man who had failed/ dull man, a man who got by/ ineffectual
- 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 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
- 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
- family pride,
connection with death,
is isolated, Hooper's
territory, dark, dull and
scary
- Fielding farm
- Symbolsim
- yew trees - death...red room - danger...crow - Hooper...stream - peaceful...rooms -
personality...scourge of the marsh monster - evil...tractor - Kingshaw power outside Warings...warts -
unluck and death...1st rabbit - Kingshaw free, 2nd - dead rabbit, dead theme, wounds hurt, 3rd - almost
trapped Hooper but releases, deer - predator prey relationship, bracelet - Helena's insecurity and
relationship with Mr. Hooper...sounds and foxes far away - parents (danger) in Warings, fish - theme of
evil...dreams - fears...Fielding - normal life,
- There was a slight persistent movement between the
yew tree branches/ longest lived of all trees/ red color 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 color for
the red room/ stag's head witjh antlers branching out
- yew trees - death...red room - danger...crow - Hooper...stream - peaceful...rooms -
personality...scourge of the marsh monster - evil...tractor - Kingshaw power outside Warings...warts -
unluck and death...1st rabbit - Kingshaw free, 2nd - dead rabbit, dead theme, wounds hurt, 3rd - almost
trapped Hooper but releases, deer - predator prey relationship, bracelet - Helena's insecurity and
relationship with Mr. Hooper...sounds and foxes far away - parents (danger) in Warings, fish - theme of
evil...dreams - fears...Fielding - normal life,
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