The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) Themes

In The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd grows up in a world made up of lies, thanks to the manipulation of Mayor Prentiss and his minions. Todd's journey through the big wide world is pretty jarring...

Rules and order are a hot mess in The Knife of Never Letting Go. On the one hand, we have people who have come to the New World to start anew, to shirk the old rules and build better lives. But on...

So there's this thing called Noise in The Knife of Never Letting Go, and it kind of throws a wrench into the whole idea of communication by making it so everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts a...

In some ways, the entire plot of The Knife of Never Letting Go hinges on choice. Todd is the last kid in Prentisstown—literally—but when he flees right before becoming a man, instead of followi...

The Knife of Never Letting Go isn't your average coming of age story because the society Todd lives in—Prentisstown—has a pretty stunted sense of what coming of age involves. In some societies...

As if Noisy thoughts, animals talking, and settlers coming in from other planets wasn't enough, The Knife of Never Letting Go has some weird gender issues going on. Mainly this is presented by ques...

In The Knife of Never Letting Go, it's pretty much Todd—our thirteen-year-old main man—versus the rest of the world. Some odds, right? And making things even trickier is the fact that in the wo...

Guilt has a heavy hand in The Knife of Never Letting Go. The story really digs into the idea of where guilt comes from and who should feel it. As we read, we ask questions like: Is Todd guilty by a...