Im The King Of The Castle Kingshaw Quotes

The Susan Hill novel ‘I’m The King of The Castle’ shows how much terror Kingshaw has to go through every day. Kingshaw is a weak character as we can tell through his being a willing victim, his timidity and his overt fear of a variety of things other than the crow. When the wings of the crow began to hit his face Kingshaw ‘gave a sudden, dry sob’ as he was clearly very frightened of the attack at that point. It seems metaphorically the crow is actually bigger than Kingshaw the human. This symbolizes that Kingshaw is easily victimized by anything, just like how he gets bullied by Hooper. It is terrifying how he could hear ‘the sound of his own blood pumping through his ears’ shows the reader that Kingshaw has an over sensitive imagination