Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always, is a dark fantasy book that tells the tale of a young boy named Harvey Swick. Harvey is bored with his life and with the help of Rictus, one of Hood’s servants, finds the Holiday house. Harvey then finds that the Holiday House is secretly an illusion of lies, dirt, and dust. He later defeats Hood and frees the children from the pond. When Harvey defeats Hood, he does it with the help of food. The food doesn’t just play a menacing role, it also is part of what makes the house so inviting. As a whole, the food plays multiple important roles in the story such as advancing the plot. The food makes the Holiday House so seemingly inviting. When Harvey arrives at the Holiday House, Mrs.Griffin immediately greets him with food. When she does this she says, …show more content…
You must be famished. “ (11). As you can see, Mrs.Griffin immediately mentions food. This gives her a motherly feel, making the house appear gentle and pleasant. Without the wonderful food, Harvey may have tried to escape sooner. In the Holiday House, the food is part of what keeps the children happy. When Rictus is persuading Harvey to come to the Holiday House, he says, “she is the greatest cook in all of Americaland. I swear, on my tailors grave. Anything you can dream of eating, she can cook. “ (9). Rictus is clearly tempting Harvey by telling him the wonders of the food. By saying “I swear, on my tailors grave.” implies that the food is so good, you will just want to eat and eat. When Harvey comes back to the House after escaping he says, “The buffet looked wonderfully tempting.” (82). Wendell falls into this trap and thoroughly indulges in it happily, an example of how much the children like the food. All together, one of the roles food plays is very positive. In the end, a significant portion of the children's fun came from having wonderful
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In the story of The Thief of Always by Clive Barker, Harvey follows Rictus into the Holiday House and sees that there is dark magic there within Hood, and as the plot goes on Harvey goes to defeat Hood with the help of some special. Those are the roles of three cats, Blue-Cat, Clue-cat, and Stew-cat, where are though they are minor characters, the are vital to the story.As we go through the book the cats play a big part that helps the story make it to the end. The roles of the three cats are so important because they together advance the plot, foreshadow, and advance the themes.
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Rhetorical Analysis of “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry In the article by Wendell Berry titled “The Pleasures of Eating” he tries to persuade the readers of the necessity and importance of critical thinking and approach to choosing meals and owning responsibility for the quality of the food cooked. He states that people who are not conscious enough while consuming products, and those who do not connect the concept of food with agricultural products, as people whose denial or avoidance prevents them from eating healthy and natural food. Berry tries to make people think about what they eat, and how this food they eat is produced. He points to the aspects, some which may not be recognized by people, of ethical, financial and
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The book The Thief of Always by Clive Barker is the story of a young boy named Harvey who gets extremely bored of the dreary month February. He then gets taken to the Holiday House where a soulless man hood is capturing kids souls to fill the void in his heart. Harvey goes on a long adventure to defeat this monster and to get his life back. Along the way Harvey meets some great friends who will help him in different ways throughout the book. Hood is a soulless monster.
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This confirms that Algernon does find great comfort within food and does use it to help him under stressful circumstances. When Jack comments on how he wishes Algernon would leave already, Algernon is almost dumbfounded and insists “You can’t possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It’s absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that” (42), furthermore demonstrating the importance of food and of manners, since no polite and high-standard person would force another to leave without offering