A Monster Calls Literary Analysis

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In A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness has incorporated death in such a way that, it overwhelms the text and adds an upsetting sense to the story. Death is the hardest an upsetting time of life, but we all have to go through it one day. At the end of the story, Conor learns that he can not avoid death and loss, but he learns to cope with them, which is the real truth that the monster was searching for. Death is a constant theme and is on every page due to Conor's mother's cancer. One of the central aspects that Conor went through during the difficult times was isolation. An example of this is in the chapter, Invisible. His classmates were emotionally ignoring him due to his mother's illness. "His classmates kept their distance from him too, like

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