The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) Analysis

Literary Devices in The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)

Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory

Setting

We see a couple different settings in The Knife of Never Letting Go, so we're going to give you a tour of the highlights: the bad, the good, and the better. PrentisstownImagine the worst day you've...

Narrator Point of View

This is very much a story told from the main character's point of view, complete with all the limitations that come with it. With the main character, Todd, telling his story, we've got ourselves so...

What's Up With the Title?

We have ourselves two titles to sort through with this book since The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first book in a series called Chaos Walking. But let's take it piece by piece.As far as Chaos...

What's Up With the Epigraph?

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of...

What's Up With the Ending?

As The Knife of Never Letting Go comes to a close, Todd and Viola are left in Haven. But rather than being in a safe place (as Haven was supposed to be), it turns out that this is the newest HQ for...

Tough-o-Meter

The Knife of Never Letting Go isn't tough to get through, per say, but it definitely takes some getting acquainted with in order to get into the groove of things. After all, we're in a completely m...

Plot Analysis

Meet ToddTodd's your average kid from a parallel universe where everyone's thoughts can be heard all the time. He's frustrated with life in cranky and unhappy Prentisstown until something weird h...

Trivia

Did you like The Knife of Never Letting Go? Then it's your lucky day, because it's the first book in a series of three. Yeah, the right word for that is trilogy, but you knew what we meant.(Source)...

Steaminess Rating

So here's the deal. There is no sex in the book (probably because we're mostly dealing with a world where women are illegal), but there are a few choice sexual innuendoes in the dialogue, which may...

Allusions