Clive Barker's The Thief Of Always

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Clive Barker, The Thief of Always is a phenomenal book, it is about a boy who is bored and gets taken to a holiday house only children can see…… Barker characterizes Hood the creator of the holiday house and Harvey the boy in the holiday house as very similar characters. There is one difference that really separates them apart. Barker characterizes diverse features of Hood and Harvey like, one has a heart and one doesn’t. Barker also gives Hood and Harvey similarities, they are both Thieves of Always, and they are also both vampires. One way that Hood and Harvey are similar is, they are both Thieves of Always. Hood is the thief of time, which is the thief of always. The thieves meet. Hood tells Harvey that he is the thief of time. Hood says, …show more content…

Harvey scares Wendell on Halloween. He also at the end wishes that he was a vampire again and says that it felt good to be a vampire. This is the next day after Harvey scared Wendall at Halloween. Harvey states, “ Oh, to be a vampire again, Harvey thought. To have claws and fangs and a hunger for blood upon him, like the hunger he'd had that distant Halloween; the distant Halloween; the gust” ( 102 ). Here Barker is implying that Harvey liked being a vampire and he wants to be one again. He liked blood, and liked the hunger that he had that Halloween. Hood sucks souls from innocent little kids, and he sucks kids out of ther life to live in the Hood House. When Wendell and Harvey are about to go back to the real world. Harvey claims, "Yeah. Like ... like ... like a vampire." This was the first time Harvey had thought of Hood that way, but it instinctively seemed right. Blood was life, and life was what w Hood fed upon. He was a vampire, sure enough. Maybe a king among vampires”. ( 76 ). Here Harvey is stating that he thinks Hood is a vampire because of the way he takes kids into the holiday house and sucks the blood or souls from the innocent little kids. Hood is the king of all the vampires because he is the leader of his servants. Hood and Harvey are both vampires. They both use their vampire skills for very different things. One uses it for evil and one uses it for helpful

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