Cue For Treason Geoffrey Crease Character Analysis

In the Novel Cue for Treason Geoffrey Trease is able to develop a strong sense of theme throughout the entirety of the story. The statement that best puts into words the theme of this book is: You grow through making mistakes and facing their repercussions. This theme comes up at many points in the book, some of which are interconnected in order to convey the idea. One of the quotations that portrays this idea extremely well is located right at the beginning of the book, in the first chapter in fact. This quotation is from when Peter, as well as his father and brother, are quietly sneaking down to Sir Philip’s wall and there is a sense of reminiscing from Peter “But it’s no good crying over spilt milk, and perhaps it wasn’t such a bad thing after all.”(15) This is an example of foreshadowing and in this case, it shows that whatever did happen was for the better, hinting at growth in some

This also helps to establish the concept of personal growth for Peter and maturity we would not expect to see gauging by the beginning of the book. Another situation that greatly brings the theme of growth into play is when Peter is attempting to retrieve his play script from the house of the yellow gentleman “…I wasn’t an experienced government agent then, and it wasn’t second nature to me to do these things. I was a boy with his heart in his mouth, scared that at any moment the yellow gentleman might come back –…” (137) This excerpt is a beautifully composed piece of writing as it shows that instead of being the young and reckless boy that on a whim, threw a rock at Sir Philip, Peter has matured and has a remarkably evolved sense of judgement. This displays that Peter can now be put into a life or death position and control his impulses in order to stop and think while still being a young boy in fear for his