REVIEW OF

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REVIEW OF

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• RAJESH JETHWA

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• The Basic Plot of The Knife That Killed Me
• The basic plot of the story is that there is a
  boy called Paul Varderman. He hates the school he
  goes to and is in the bottom class for
  practically everything, but he isnt stupid at
  all.
• He gets entangled in a large fight after
  delivering the severed head of a dog to Goddo.
  The dog turns out to be Goddos and in his rage
  he clamps the dogs head over Paul.
• Paul then retells that very story to Roth, the
  school bully, who hands him a well-crafted knife
  for any future fights.
• Paul becomes friends with the school freaks and
  hangs out with them, until he gets tricked into
  believing that Maddy has stood him up for Shane.
• He then gets angry and gets himself involved with
  the fight on the gypsy field, where he handles
  the little kids. He then saves them, after which
  he is charged at with a knife in the hands of a
  Temple Moor, and that is where he dies, but not
  wholly.

The Basic Plot of The Knife That Killed Me
The basic plot of the story is that there is a
boy called Paul Varderman. He hates the school he
goes to and is in the bottom class for
practically everything, but he isnt stupid at
all. He gets entangled in a large fight after
delivering the severed head of a dog to Goddo.
The dog turns out to be Goddos and in his rage
he clamps the dogs head over Paul. Paul then
retells that very story to Roth, the school
bully, who hands him a well-crafted knife for any
future fights. Paul becomes friends with the
school freaks and hangs out with them, until he
gets tricked into believing that Maddy has stood
him up for Shane. He then gets angry and gets
himself involved with the fight on the gypsy
field, where he handles the little kids. He then
saves them, after which he is charged at with a
knife in the hands of a Temple Moor, and that
is where he dies, but not wholly.
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• What I thought of the novel The Knife That
  Killed Me
• I liked the novel The Knife That Killed Me I
  thought it was a brilliant book. The story line,
  the descriptions of the knifes position between
  every chapter they were great. The author
  Anthony McGowan really did a fantastic job on
  this.
• I liked the humour throughout this book,
  especially the first chapter The knife that
  killed me was a special knife. Its blade was
  inscribed with magical runes from a lost
  language, and the metal glimmered with a thousand
  colours, iridescent as a peacocks tail or the
  slick of petrol on a puddle.
• I also liked the fact that Anthony McGowan began
  describing the knife as if it was made inside a
  legend It was made from a meteorite that had
  plunged to Earth after a journey of a hundred
  million miles. The first chapter is definitely
  my favourite part.
• The twist at the end was also a great feat of Mr.
  McGowans imagination I did not see that coming
  considering that the knife had been paused frame
  by frame throughout the book, ending up in Paul
  murdering Shane.
• In my opinion this is a well-rounded book and I
  would definitely recommend this page-turner to
  any secondary school child.