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  1. Chapter 1. Following the death of his father, a man named Joseph Hooper moves back into his father’s home, a large English mansion called Warings. Joseph has an eleven-year-old son, Edmund Hooper, and his wife, Ellen Hooper, died six years ago. At first, Edmund is lonely and bored at Warings, which he considers a dull, ugly place.

  2. Edmund comes to a case at the end of the room. Using the key, he opens the case, revealing a “Death’s Head Hawk Moth.”. Edmund touches the moth with his finger, and immediately, the moth, “already years dead,” collapses into dust. The chapter ends with the macabre image of Edmund destroying an already-dead animal.

  3. Reading resource. Paper 1. Perhaps this was only the first of a whole battalion of crows, that would rise up and swoop at him. I’m the King of the Castle Susan Hill. Contents. Story openings: I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill (1970) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993) Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2012) The Reluctant ...

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  4. The novel to which I’m the King of the Castle is most frequently compared is William Golding’s (1954). Like Hill’s novel, is narrated from the point of view of children, but it’s far from a “children’s book.”. Instead, both Hill and Golding portray children as violent, psychologically complex, and capable of committing profoundly ...

  5. Written by Polly Barbour. Ten year-old Edmund Hooper lives with his father, Joseph, in the large house Joseph has inherited. They are not close. Joseph hires a live-in housekeeper, Helena Kingshaw, who moves into Warings House with her ten year old son, Charles.

  6. With their parents oblivious, the situation speeds towards a crisis... Darkly claustrophobic and morally ambiguous, Susan Hill weaves a classic tale of cruelty, power, and the dangerous games we play as children. 224 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1970.

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  8. ISBN. 9780582313811. Pub Date. July 1997. Pages. 80. £5.99 Buy it Now. Buy the I'm the King of the Castle: GCSE York Notes GCSE revision study guide from the official York Notes site. Free P&P and instant online access to the digital version.

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