Why do you think Susan Hill chose, I'm the King of the Castle as the title for the novel? <Tab/> <Tab/>At first glance a book entitled, 'I'm the King of the Castle,' might make a potential reader envisage a novel about petty power struggles between two young children, who know nothing of the evil in the world around them. As the reader looks closer and …
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…to miss use power, and play power games. There is something subversive in this novel that breaks down the naïve adult preconceptions that childhood is a time of unhindered happiness plagued only by the evils from the adult world. Ironically the title shows how much can be missed by looking only superficially, in the same way that the parents have made themselves oblivious to all of the wrongs of their children.