The Knife Of Never Letting Go Analysis

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“The first thing you find out when your dog learns how to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.” The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is about Todd Hewitt, the last boy in Prentisstown, and it’s not only his dog, Manchee’s thoughts that he can hear. Because of the widespread of a virus, the men of Prentisstown can hear each other’s thoughts all the time, called The Noise. One day, Todd stumbles across a pool of silence moving through the marsh at the edge of Prentisstown. The pool of silence is a girl. There are no girls in Prentisstown and finding her meant that Todd must run away from the only home he has ever known, but is Prentisstown hiding something far greater? To begin, the protagonist of the series is Todd Hewitt,

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