im the king of the castle
...er took Kingshaw to the red room he showed him some dead moths, and then Hooper challenged Kingshaw to pick one of them up. In my view, Kingshaw should have gritted his teeth and picked up one of dead moths or, he should have said no to Hooper and walk out, rather than say no and stay in the room. From this incident Hooper gained another advantage over Kingshaw, for he now found out that Kingshaw was afraid of moths. This also led to Hooper locking Kingshaw inside the red room: “Why not! Scaredy-baby, scared of a moth.” When Kingshaw ran away the second time, Hooper followed him and found Kingshaw hiding in a bush. When they were in the wood, a thunder storm, and caused Hooper to get scared. Kingshaw then tried to calm him down, and by doing this I think Kingshaw shows an awful lot of weakness in this situation. Here I think Kingshaw should have just left Hooper, just as Hooper did with him in the room. Also, if Kingshaw did leave Hooper, I think Kingshaw would have gained an advantage over Hooper because Hooper was scared and if he tried to bully Kingshaw again he could always remind him of what happened in the wood. However, Kingshaw did help Hooper, and Hooper must have thought that he could do anything to Kingshaw now because after all that he had done to him Kingshaw still helped him: “Hooper was completely beside himself, wrapped up in his fear, oblivious of everything except the storm, and his terror of it.” As the novel goes on Hooper’s bullying gets more and more excessive, and Kingshaw is no longer able to cope with it. One afternoon Kingshaw climbed up the side of a castle ruin’s wall, while on a picnic. When Kingshaw got to the top of the wall, Hooper did not want to be out done so he began to climb up it. However, when Hooper was almost at the top of the wall he saw how high up he was and became scared. Kingshaw then tried to help Hooper to get to the top, but Hooper would not move, and he eventually fell. The result of the fall was that Hooper had broken his leg, and couldn’t get out of his bed until it had heeled: “Kingshaw reached out his hand. In terror, Hooper flinched and took a step backwards, swayed and fell.” While Hooper was unable to get out of bed, Kingshaw decided to make a model boat. Kingshaw then went to Hooper’s room one day and found Hooper playing with his model boat. Kingshaw then asked for it back, and Hooper said that everything Kingshaw owned was know his because he was staying in his house: “And anyway, as well, you made it in our house, it’s our cardboard and our paint, so it isn’t yours at all, it’s mine, you don’t own anything that is in this house.” Hooper then threw the boat off the wall, and the boat broke. This infuriated Kingshaw because he had spent so much time making the model and also because he couldn’t do anything about it because Hooper would tell on him: “…,Hooper hurled the model away from him, across the room. It hit the far wall and dropped.” Here I think Kingshaw has justifiable reason to kill himself because no other way out. Even if he went to his own mother she wouldn’t listen to him because she dismissed all his complaints as just silly little problems that would sort themselves out. When Hooper and Kingshaw ran away into the wood, Hooper had fallen into a stream and smashed his head of a rock. When they were found Hooper said that Kingshaw had pushed him into the water and left him there. Although this was untrue, and Kingshaw protested his innocence whole heartedly, Kingshaw’s mother actually believed Hooper and could not believe that Kingshaw had been so stupid: “It was Kingshaw, It was Kingshaw, he pushed me in the water.” The two parents in the novel, Mrs. Kingshaw and Mr Hooper, had their own separate agendas. Mr. Hooper’s was that if he could get a friend for Hooper and someone to look after Hooper, he could also have a potential wife at the same time. Mrs. Kingshaw’s was that she wanted to stay at Warings so she could finally have a home for her son and her. ...