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What happens? |
Doomed |
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The threatening note |
Doesn’t tell anyone |
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The fight |
Mother tells him not to spoil her chance |
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The crow he wanted to go this mother |
He never did – he made himself cope alone |
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Crow on the bed |
He would not go to his mother |
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Locked in the Red Room |
Refuses to talk about it |
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Followed to Hang Wood |
Lets Hooper know he wouldn’t have hit him |
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Returns to look after Hooper |
Loses the battle with his conscience and sense of responsibility |
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Hooper blames him for the accident |
Despite his outcry the adults refuse to believe him |
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Adults preoccupied with each other |
Ignore evidence of the boys’ growing distance |
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Kingshaw’s safe ground gradually eroded: Mother turns to Mr Hooper Learns he will be going to Edmund’s school |
Adults ignore Kingshaw’s feelings and don’t involve him in the decision process |
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The outing to Leydell Castle leads to |
Kingshaw feels guilt but meets a friend |
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Disaster for Hooper Hooper returns to Warings having been filled in on everything Kingshaw has done |
Kingshaw feels hopeless, he spoils the perfect family picture |
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Mrs Kingshaw gives Hooper Kingshaw’s model |
Kingshaw breaks the model to prevent Hooper having it |
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Learns the adults are getting married |
mother exhorts him not to do anything to ruin it for her |
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The circus trip Mrs Kingshaw invites Fielding over to tea |
Charles feels he has lost his friend even before it can happen; he drives Fielding away |
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Kingshaw destroys the battle plans Hooper sends him the second note |
Kingshaw realises that the only way to be happy is to remove himself from the situation, that way he won’t ruin his mother’s chance at happiness, she’d never forgive him (or herself?) if she learned the truth now. |
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Only way out is suicide |