The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) Coming of Age Quotes

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Quote #10

My Noise rises red and purple.

I'm Todd effing Hewitt.

That's who I effing well am.

I look him right in the eye, sending my Noise straight for him, and I spit out in a rasp, "I'll thank you to call me Mr. Hewitt." (42.110-113)

Todd is now a man. He addresses Prentiss Jr. (who we know is only days older than he is), as a fellow man, rather than bending to society's rules about who is a man and who's not. This is the moment where Todd is no longer afraid, and faces his enemies as a peer.