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A comparative study of the role of children and the presentation of the experiences in fiction as illustrated in Susan Hill's 'I'm the King of the Castle' and L.P Hartley's 'The Go-Between'.  

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A comparative study of the role of children and the presentation of the experiences in fiction as illustrated in Susan Hill's 'I'm the King of the Castle' and L.P Hartley's 'The Go-Between'. 'The world of the child is often one of intense emotion, confusion, pain and suffering and is a rich source of material for the novelist' Having only been alive for about twelve years, the lead characters of I'm the King of the Castle and The Go-Between are inexperienced. The 'intense emotion, confusion, pain and suffering' that a child would go through is caused by this. Adults have the advantage over children. They have faced these things before and got through them; the knowledge and experience from childhood that they use to get through bad times as adults is what helps them. Not having such weapons, children react very differently. I'm the King of the Castle has a prime example of...

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