Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheNounAndTheNoun: ''The Ask and the Answer''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SacrificialLamb: In ''The Ask and the Answer'', PluckyGirl Maddy is introduced and killed off early on. She was one of the few cheerful and optimistic characters, and her death demonstrated the senseless brutality of the Mayor's men.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* NeverLearnedToRead: A touchy subject for Todd. He never learned to read beyond a few words, and he can't even read his own mothers journal. Leads to a heartwarming moment in ''The Knife of Letting Go'' wherein Viola reads out her journal for him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 165 (click to see context) from:
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Todd uses this a ''lot''.
to:
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Todd uses does this a ''lot''.''a lot''. Most notably, whenever he wants to narrate that someone said "fuck", he replaces it with "eff - except they didn't say 'eff'".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
%% * MacGuffinTitle: ''The Knife Of Never Letting Go''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
%% * KillTheCutie:
%% ** [[spoiler:Manchee]] in ''The Knife of Never Letting Go''.
%% ** [[spoiler:Maddy]] in ''The Ask and the Answer''.
%% ** [[spoiler:Manchee]] in ''The Knife of Never Letting Go''.
%% ** [[spoiler:Maddy]] in ''The Ask and the Answer''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 133 (click to see context) from:
* ImplacableMan: Aaron, getting eaten by a crocodile? Drowning in the swamp? No, it takes [[spoiler: a knife through the neck and falling off a waterfall to finally kill him.]]
to:
* ImplacableMan: Aaron, In ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', by the time of Todd and Viola's final confrontation with him, Aaron has pulled through being mauled by a crocodile, almost drowning, getting eaten by a crocodile? Drowning in his nose torn off, and more through the swamp? No, it takes [[spoiler: power of his own twisted faith. Horrifying disfigurement is a small price to pay for the fulfilment of his mission. [[spoiler:He only dies for good when Viola puts a knife through the his neck and falling off he goes over a waterfall to finally kill him.]]waterfall]].
-->'''Aaron''': I am a ''saint!''
-->'''Aaron''': I am a ''saint!''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* {{Gendercide}}: In ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', the protagonist Todd Hewitt grew up on an alien planet, in a town where there are no women. For his whole life, he believed that the reason was a DepopulationBomb, which killed off all the women and had the side effect of allowing everyone to hear the men's thoughts. The truth is much more sinister. [[spoiler:The thought-hearing is a natural effect of living on the planet, and the men in Todd's town couldn't stand that the women could hear their thoughts but not the other way around, and killed them all. There are women in other towns, but Todd has never met one]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 113 (click to see context) from:
* ForcedToWatch: Todd is forced to watch Viola being tortured for answers. [[BerserkButton He doesn't take it well.]]
to:
* ForcedToWatch: In ''The Ask and the Answer'', Mayor-turned-[[spoiler:President]] Prentiss tortures [[spoiler:Viola]] while a horrified Todd is forced to watch Viola being tortured for answers. [[BerserkButton He doesn't take it well.]]watches on behind a soundproof one-way mirror. [[spoiler:Todd]] breaks first and gives Prentiss information about the upcoming invasion by the Answer.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In ''The Ask and The Answer'', the protagonists finally have the BigBad at their mercy. Then, [[spoiler:the native species of the planet launch a war]] against all humans, and they realize that they need him to command his army in order to survive.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 181 (click to see context) from:
* ARealManIsAKiller: Todd is the last boy in Prentisstown. Just why is he being chased? [[spoiler: To become a man there, you must kill someone. Todd is unable to kill anyone.]] The Mayor says in ''Monsters of Men'' that until a boy experiences war, he is still a child.
to:
* ARealManIsAKiller: Todd Used horribly in ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', where [[spoiler:the evil Mayor of the main character's hometown killed all the women thirteen years ago]], just after the main character's birth. He also instituted a tradition that, on their fourteenth birthday, boys have to kill another man, in order to be accepted into adulthood. [[spoiler:They aren't told about this beforehand, and this is preferably somebody they have known their whole life]]. The main character, Todd, finds out and chooses not to go along with it. But then, a local priest, Aaron, [[spoiler:wants to become a sacrificial target for Todd, who is the last boy in Prentisstown. Just why is born to their village. Aaron comes after him and to provoke him into murder him by killing or kidnapping several people he being chased? [[spoiler: To become a man there, you must kill someone. Todd is unable to kill anyone.]] The Mayor says in ''Monsters of Men'' that until a boy experiences war, he is still a child.cares about]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: The trilogy has this in the form of the Noise germ, which basically means that any thought (in the form of words, fragments of sentences, or even pictures) flows from the mind of the thinker, and is out there for anyone to hear/read/see. Todd, the main character, even comments that Noise can have 'texture' and 'colour', reflecting the emotional state of the thinker. This is where the series gets its title, and the constant flow of Noise is understandably difficult to cope with. Also, in an even darker twist, [[spoiler:the fact that only men produce Noise led to much paranoia and hatred between the sexes in the early years of settlement on the new world, to the point that the men of Prentisstown slaughtered all of the women unlucky enough to stay]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
All three books were shortlisted for the UsefulNotes/CarnegieMedal, with ''[[ThirdTimesTheCharm Monsters of Men]]'' winning it in 2011. It was also the second YoungAdult novel ever to be shortlisted for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke]] science fiction award. In late 2011, Creator/LionsGate bought the rights to bring the trilogy to [[TheFilmOfTheBook the big screen]]; the [[Film/ChaosWalking2021 film adaptation]] is scheduled to be released in 2021.
to:
All three books were shortlisted for the UsefulNotes/CarnegieMedal, with ''[[ThirdTimesTheCharm Monsters of Men]]'' winning it in 2011. It was also the second YoungAdult novel ever to be shortlisted for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke]] science fiction award. In late 2011, Creator/LionsGate bought the rights to bring the trilogy to [[TheFilmOfTheBook the big screen]]; the [[Film/ChaosWalking2021 film adaptation]] is scheduled to be was released in 2021.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 85 (click to see context) :
* DividedWeFall: ''If one of us falls, we all fall.''
Added DiffLines:
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Aaron.
Added DiffLines:
* DividedWeFall: ''If one of us falls, we all fall.''
Added DiffLines:
* TheDulcineaEffect: Todd, saving Viola approximately 5 seconds after meeting her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MayorPain: A dual example: Mayor Prentiss is the Evil variant, [[spoiler: Mayor Ledger does double duty as both the Incompetent variant ''and'' the Evil variant before he gets blown up]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
All three books were shortlisted for the UsefulNotes/CarnegieMedal, with ''[[ThirdTimesTheCharm Monsters of Men]]'' winning it in 2011. It was also the second YoungAdult novel ever to be shortlisted for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke]] science fiction award. In late 2011, Creator/LionsGate bought the rights to bring the trilogy to [[TheFilmOfTheBook the big screen]].
to:
All three books were shortlisted for the UsefulNotes/CarnegieMedal, with ''[[ThirdTimesTheCharm Monsters of Men]]'' winning it in 2011. It was also the second YoungAdult novel ever to be shortlisted for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke]] science fiction award. In late 2011, Creator/LionsGate bought the rights to bring the trilogy to [[TheFilmOfTheBook the big screen]].screen]]; the [[Film/ChaosWalking2021 film adaptation]] is scheduled to be released in 2021.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 173 (click to see context) from:
* PrecisionFStrike: From [[spoiler: Viola]] to Todd.
to:
* PrecisionFStrike: From [[spoiler: Viola]] to Todd.Todd, towards the end of Book 1. Particularly unexpected because of how many times the phrase 'effing' has been used up until then.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
''Chaos Walking'' is the collective term for Creator/PatrickNess's books ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', ''The Ask and the Answer'', and ''Monsters of Men''. It is a series set on a {{dystopia}}n [[CrapsackWorld Earth-like planet called New World]], which human settlers from "Old World" colonised in the hope of starting a new life.
to:
''Chaos Walking'' is the collective term for Creator/PatrickNess's books ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', Go'' (2008), ''The Ask and the Answer'', Answer'' (2009), and ''Monsters of Men''.Men'' (2010). It is a series set on a {{dystopia}}n [[CrapsackWorld Earth-like planet called New World]], which human settlers from "Old World" colonised in the hope of starting a new life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 206 (click to see context) from:
* TookALevelInBadass: Viola. Once when [[spoiler: she blows up the bridge]], again when [[spoiler: she [[ShockAndAwe electrocutes Davy]]]], and several more times besides. [[spoiler: For the explosion and electricity, she pulled apart [[ChekhovsGun her fire box and her ship signal]].]]
to:
* TookALevelInBadass: Viola. Once when [[spoiler: she blows up the bridge]], again when [[spoiler: she [[ShockAndAwe electrocutes zaps Davy]]]], and several more times besides. [[spoiler: For the explosion and electricity, she pulled apart [[ChekhovsGun her fire box and her ship signal]].]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26,27 (click to see context) from:
* AnimalAssassin: Manchee. He protects Todd every chance he gets, even [[spoiler: going after a guy with a machete in Farbranch]]. And Aaron at least three times, but this ends in [[spoiler: Aaron snapping his neck]]. Has several [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].
** Also Angharrad, Todd's horse in Monsters of Men, who [[spoiler: he will not leave to die because [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he cannot face losing her as he lost Manchee]]]]. Angharrad saves Viola when [[spoiler: a half-crazed 1017, bent on revenge, attacks her with a knife]].
** Also Angharrad, Todd's horse in Monsters of Men, who [[spoiler: he will not leave to die because [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he cannot face losing her as he lost Manchee]]]]. Angharrad saves Viola when [[spoiler: a half-crazed 1017, bent on revenge, attacks her with a knife]].
to:
* AnimalAssassin: Manchee. He protects Todd every chance he gets, even [[spoiler: going after a guy with a machete in Farbranch]]. And Aaron at least three times, but this ends in [[spoiler: Aaron snapping his neck]]. Has several [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].
neck]].
** Also Angharrad, Todd's horse in Monsters of Men, who [[spoiler: he will not leave to die because[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he cannot face losing her as he lost Manchee]]]].Manchee]]. Angharrad saves Viola when [[spoiler: a half-crazed 1017, bent on revenge, attacks her with a knife]].
** Also Angharrad, Todd's horse in Monsters of Men, who [[spoiler: he will not leave to die because
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 50,51 (click to see context) from:
* BondVillainStupidity: Todd. I mean, he [[spoiler: has the Mayor tied up ''right there'' and]] doesn't do a thing about it. Instead, he bargains with the guy!
** Subverted. Todd's actions reflect the moral gray area the author has been trying to get at. Do desperate times really call for desperate measures, or are they when we most need to uphold our morals?
** Subverted. Todd's actions reflect the moral gray area the author has been trying to get at. Do desperate times really call for desperate measures, or are they when we most need to uphold our morals?
to:
* BondVillainStupidity: Todd. I mean, he Todd [[spoiler: has the Mayor tied up ''right there'' and]] doesn't do a thing about it. Instead, he bargains with the guy!
** Subverted.guy! Justified as Todd's actions reflect the moral gray area the author has been trying to get at. Do desperate times really call for desperate measures, or are they when we most need to uphold our morals?
** Subverted.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
to:
----
Added DiffLines:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
link is broken
Changed line(s) 13,14 (click to see context) from:
A prequel, called ''The New World'', is available [[http://www.booktrust.org.uk/usr/library/documents/short-stories/the_new_world.pdf online for free.]]
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 59 (click to see context) from:
* BuryYourGays: [[spoilers: Cillian]] is one of the first people to die in the series.
to:
* BuryYourGays: [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Cillian]] is one of the first people to die in the series.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 59 (click to see context) from:
* BuryYourGays: [[Cillian]] is one of the first people to die in the series.
to:
* BuryYourGays: [[Cillian]] [[spoilers: Cillian]] is one of the first people to die in the series.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BuryYourGays: [[Cillian]] is one of the first people to die in the series.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
''Chaos Walking'' is the collective term for Patrick Ness's books ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', ''The Ask and the Answer'', and ''Monsters of Men''. It is a series set on a {{dystopia}}n [[CrapsackWorld Earth-like planet called New World]], which human settlers from "Old World" colonised in the hope of starting a new life.
to:
''Chaos Walking'' is the collective term for Patrick Ness's Creator/PatrickNess's books ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'', ''The Ask and the Answer'', and ''Monsters of Men''. It is a series set on a {{dystopia}}n [[CrapsackWorld Earth-like planet called New World]], which human settlers from "Old World" colonised in the hope of starting a new life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Its 'And then they' not 'And the they'
Changed line(s) 191 (click to see context) from:
* SpaceAmish: The first settlers try this - they left Earth for a simpler, more religious life, which explains their primitive technology level for a sci-fi set on another planet. And the they get into a few wars. But the intention was there.
to:
* SpaceAmish: The first settlers try this - they left Earth for a simpler, more religious life, which explains their primitive technology level for a sci-fi set on another planet. And the then they get into a few wars. But the intention was there.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15,16 (click to see context) from:
All three books were shortlisted for the CarnegieMedal, with ''[[ThirdTimesTheCharm Monsters of Men]]'' winning it in 2011. It was also the second YoungAdult novel ever to be shortlisted for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke]] science fiction award. In late 2011, Creator/LionsGate bought the rights to bring the trilogy to [[TheFilmOfTheBook the big screen]].
to:
All three books were shortlisted for the CarnegieMedal, UsefulNotes/CarnegieMedal, with ''[[ThirdTimesTheCharm Monsters of Men]]'' winning it in 2011. It was also the second YoungAdult novel ever to be shortlisted for the [[UsefulNotes/ArthurCClarkeAward Arthur C. Clarke]] science fiction award. In late 2011, Creator/LionsGate bought the rights to bring the trilogy to [[TheFilmOfTheBook the big screen]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added Rasputinian Death entry.
Added DiffLines:
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Aaron only dies after being mauled by a crocodile and having half his face torn out, punched repeatedly by Todd, stabbed through the throat by Viola, and pushed off a waterfall.]]
