In young-adult sci-fi novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, all the men in a town called Prentisstown can hear each other’s thoughts – which might seem a positive thing, but the narrator finds his own thoughts being crowded out by ‘The Noise’ and decides to escape. What does the rural landscape hold for him? What does it mean to live in a world where everything we say and do is monitored? Are we really able to think for ourselves, and to do what is right?
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In young-adult sci-fi novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, all the men in a town called Prentisstown can hear each other’s thoughts – which might seem a positive thing, but the narrator finds his own thoughts being crowded out by ‘The Noise’ and decides to escape. What does the rural landscape hold for him? What does it mean to live in a world where everything we say and do is monitored? Are we really able to think for ourselves, and to do what is right?