The
Iron Man
Chapter
1 Review
The Iron
Man is a story written by Ted Hughes. It starts off with a vast iron
figure taller than a house standing at the brink of a cliff with a
beach below. Ted has cleverly started the story with questions to
hook the reader, Ted uses questions such as, How far had he walked?
Where did he come from? How was he made?
He steps
into nothingness and falls off the edge of the cliff. He lands on the
golden sand as soft as a pillow, parts scattered everywhere.
The Iron
man is intelligent enough to pick up his parts and put them together.
But he isn’t intelligent enough to know that the sea and giant iron
men don’t mix. He slowly walks into the salty water. After a long
time of struggling he finally emerges from the sea.
A
fisherman’s son called Hogarth is the first to spot this out of the
ordinary iron figure. He runs home and tells his beloved father. His
Father is the only one who believes him and doesn’t hesitate to get
help.
Ted has
used his words carefully and has described everything amazingly.
After many re-drafts Ted has come up with a gem of a book. He has
used many different techniques to hook the reader, such as repetition
and personification:
- the sea chewed at the sand
- ‘hush’ whispered the sea
He has
really shown and proved how good a writer he is in this book. Ted has
kept a creative mind with this book. Amazing ideas.
By
Cody Jones & Zoe Gray
