The Knife Of Never Letting Go- blog 2

Hello, this is Ray again and this is the second part of The Knife Of Never Letting Go.

Todd and Manchee were off trying to find swamp apples for Todd's guardian Ben when they notice that there is a break in the thoughts or "noise" so it is called in Prentisstown. The two call this break "quiet," it's the only way they can describe it. The effect it has on Todd is very strange he describes it as so:
 "Well, I can't hear it, that's the whole point, but when I run toward it the emptiness of it is touching my chest and the stillness of it pulls at me and there's so much quiet in it, no, not quiet, silence, so much unbelievable silence that I start to feel really torn up, like  i;m about to lose the most valuable thing ever, like there it is, a death, and I'm running and my eyes are watering and my chest is just crushing and there's no one to see but I still mind and my eyes start crying, they start crying, they start effing crying, and I stop for a minute and I bend over and Jesus H. Dammit, you can just a whole stinking, stupid minute bent over there, by which time, of, course, the hole is moving away, its moved away, it's gone." (Ness 15-16)
It seems to be such a foreign force to him that he cannot get close or he will collapse. So Todd runs away, back through town where he tries to hide what he had experience in his thoughts. But how do you hide something as big as this, when everyone can read your every thought?
Scared and confused Todd arrives back home to see his one of two guardians Ben, where the course of his life is changed forever.

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