I Am the King

The novel “I am the King of the Castle” is written by a renowned writer Susan Hill where she narrates how one likes to take control over to another by his power. The writer narrates how two adolescents become rivalry to each others. The novel is characterized with four persons; Joseph Hopper, Edmund Hopper, Mrs. Helena Kingshaw and her son Charles Kingshaw. Joseph Hopper has inherited the old house named Warings what is located near the village of Derne. The relationship between Hopper and his son Edmund Hopper is very cold and formal. Helena Kingshaw is a housekeeper of Warings who has a son named Charles Kingshaw of a similar age to Edmund Hopper. Hopper does not want a boy lives in his domain. He always likes to dominate Charles Kingshaw and has a continuous attitude of disliking to him what makes Kingshaw escape the territory of Hopper.
In chapter three the writer narrates how Kingshaw is desperate to escape from the daily torments of living with Hooper. However, he is clearly not used to the great outdoors and has difficulties walking on the uneven terrain, frequently stumbling and losing his balance. When he is attacked by a vicious crow he is terrified and blindly runs back towards Warings. It is very hard for him to reach the house as the crow is striking him with the beak. Kingshaw reaches near the Warings and sees somebody is watching his sufferings through the window. It is Hooper who has witnessed the attack from a window of the Warings and taunts Kingshaw about it on his return. He dares him to return to Hang Woods and Kingshaw is resigned to doing this, despite his fear.
The writer is able to portray Kingshaw’s fear in a tremendous way. Kingshaw is likely to escape the scourge of mental torture from Hopper who turns his life a hell. But there is another Hopper like vicious crow waiting in his way to attack him as the crow thinks that the boy is an intruder in the its domain. There is a similarity between Hopper and crow. Both are dominating in their