where is the 'whining' young boy going? Is he really creeping? What shows us, nevertheless, that he is quite healthy?
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Comprehension Builders to develop AO skills in paper 1
PAPER 1: READING (COMPREHENSION) – I’m The King Of The Castle by Susan
Hill
L.O.
• to understand the ways in which authors use the openings of stories to engage
the reader AO1
• to understand how the conventions of literary genres may be evident in the story
opening AO2
• to understand the structural features of the passage and its place in the structure
of the whole novel AO2
• to make a personal response to the passage with evaluation using inference and
analysis. AO4
I’m The King Of The Castle
Three months ago, his grandmother died, and then they had moved to this house.
‘I will not live there again, until it belongs to me,’ his father had said. Though the old
man lay upstairs, after a second stroke, and lingered, giving no trouble.
The boy was taken up to see him.
‘You must not be afraid,’ his father said nervously, ‘he is a very old man, now, very
ill.’
‘I am never afraid,’ And that was no more than the truth, though his father would not
have believed it.
It will be very moving, Joseph Hooper had decided, with the three generations
together and one upon his deathbed, the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest
son. For, in middle age, he was ac
But it had not been moving. The old man had breathed noisily, and dribbled a little,
and never woken. The sick room smelled sour.
‘Ah well, ‘Mr Hooper had said, and coughed, ‘he is very ill. You know. But I am glad
you have seen him.’