A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Author: Patrick Ness
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Middle Grade
Published: September 27 2011, Walker Books
Pages: 215
Blurb: The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.It wants the truth.
“So go. Run with it. Make
trouble.”
A young boy had trouble
healing from the bitter truth that haunted him and so the monster came
calling…..
A
Monster Calls follows the story of Conner, a young teenage boy who’s dealing
with his mother having cancer. Not only has he got to look after himself he
also has to deal with bullies and everybody ignoring him and every night he is
thrown into a nightmare which haunts him. A nightmare which makes him feel like
he should be punished.
A
Yew Tree that has always been in Connor’s back garden reveals itself as a Monster
or nature’s wildness. He visits Connor one day to tell him that he will be told
three stories and on the last day Conner will tell him a story.
Have you ever read a
fairytale and thought; something tragic happens, a beautiful love story, the
bad person’s been dealt with and now everybody can live happily ever after. But
what if that’s not what really happened.
What if we’ve always only
seen one person’s view on a story, have we been judging the wrong characters.
Have
you ever read a story were the bitter person is forsaken and everybody follows the
preacher blindly because they preach joy and happiness. But what if they were
wrong on their views?
What if the bitter person
actually did good but hid it whilst the other did bad and hid it beneath good.
Being invisible is better than other things
How being seen can make you
even more lonely
Connor
has been haunted by his nightmares and so the Monster comes to save him, not
his mother. The only way to move on is to let go. For the Yew Tree can only
save those who can be saved.
We may think horrible things
but that doesn`t make us bad until we act on them.
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