A Monster Calls: Patrick Ness

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His classmates kept their distance from him, too, like he was giving off a bad smell. He tried to remember if he’d talked to any of them since he’d arrived this morning. He didn’t think he had. Which meant he hadn’t actually spoken to anyone since his father that morning.

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Please excuse my ramblings, I read A Monster Calls in three hours and I am still extremely emotional. I should not have been given access to a computer after such a powerful book. Miss Kwan is the Head of Year for Conor's grade. She tries to get Conor to open up about what he is going through at home and on the playground with Harry and the other bullies. She is depicted as being strict and having a permanent frown. Mrs. Marl Visceral, dark, sad, beautiful, hopeful and really, really angry, this is a beautifully structured, dense, layered novel about the monster that touchesus all at some point. This extraordinary book was the first ever to win both the CILIP Carnegie and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. This story will provoke you many moods and states, you will smile at some moment, you will hate at other, you will cry in yet another. Mrs. Marl is Conor's English teacher. She assigns a life-writing project that asks students to write about the most significant events of their life. Conor never completes the assignment, although it prompts him to think about the most unhappy events of his life. The Monster

a b Carnegie Winner 2012. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 4 November 2012. Conor’s grandmother is very independent. At first she seems cold and strict, but it becomes clear that she is doing her best to take care of her daughter and grandson in a very difficult situation. Conor’s father and the ex-husband of Conor’s mother. Conor’s mother and father divorced when Conor was seven years old, and Conor explains that he barely remembers what it’s like to have a father… My first rating in January on this book was 4 stars. I couldn't figure out why, I just didn't love the story. I re-read it this past weekend and I've revised my review. not a nice disney one with singing birds where everyone gets to go home with their prince and all of their limbs, but the older, darker kind involving foot-choppery and decimation.I was very angry, then sad, then had mixed emotions in between. My main issue when I first read it was that I wanted more of an ending, or perhaps more before the ending. Maybe I wanted a different outcome because I was so hopeful for Conor. I don't know, but after reading it again, without a doubt, I know I just can't handle the truth. As a mom, my worst nightmare. With that said, I've pondered over it and feel this book deserves 5 stars. You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all. Who am I?” The monster repeated. “I am the spine the mountains hang upon! I am the tears the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind!...I am everything untamed and untameable! I am this wild earth, come for you Conor O’Malley.” When the monster tells the second story it shows Conor the events and asks if he would like to help destroy the parson’s house. Conor joins in but when the monster disappears, Conor realises that he has been destroying his grandmother’s things. One of the characters in the monster’s first tale. The young prince is the grandson of a king, and his stepmother is the evil queen. When the king passes away, the evil queen…