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He looked like the kind of kid who might have a paper route, and as a matter of fact, he did-he delivered the Santo Donato Clarion. He was smiling a summer vacation smile as he pedaled through the sun and shade not too far from his own house.

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I put several months between the first novella to the second one, but I don’t think I can do that anymore now…I will read The Body as soon as I finished my current book.He looked like the total all-American kid as he pedaled his twenty-six-inch Schwinn with the apehanger handlebars up the residential suburban street, and that’s just what he was: Todd Bowden, thirteen years old, five-feet-eight and a healthy one hundred and forty pounds, hair the color of ripe corn, blue eyes, white even teeth, lightly tanned skin marred by not even the first shadow of adolescent acne. Summer of Corruption for Apt Pupil because the story is about someone’s mind being slowly corrupted. Hope Springs Eternal for Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption because the story is about the power of hopes. It is interesting to see how he writes opening lines before each novella that somehow related to seasons and the story. Once again, Stephen King has made me awed with his book. A sleeping monster can easily be awoken if you keep on making him remember his past life.

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We can also see how normal kid can easily be changed into a cold blooded serial killer because of stories that he isn’t supposed to know before he is old enough to understand them. A relationship based on curiosity that turned into hate and yet, in the end, there is no one else to trust but the one they hated the most. In only 178 pages, we could see how each character’s role changes from the one who has the control into someone who is under the control. Simple thing led to another bigger thing. The relationship between Todd and Dussander was between hate and love, they both hated each other but they couldn’t get away from each other.įaith brought them to a situation where they could not escape anymore. Todd had turned into Dussander’s apt pupil without him realizing it. He ended up killing someone and soon realized that his nightmares will go away after the killing. The boy’s mind changed bit by bit, he became more convulsive and easily lost his temper. Dussander also had the same kind of nightmares, the boy had somehow aroused the monster inside Dussader. The stories sipped on to Todd’s mind and made him had all those nightmares. Dussander told him how he gassed the inmate, how he tortured them with food, and many other horrible stories.

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A mind of a 13 year old boy is supposed to be pure of ideas on how to torture people, but Todd’s mind was full of imagination from Dussander’s horrible past. Todd felt like he own the old man in his hand, but things started to change when Todd started having nightmares about the war. He hated the boy from waking up all the nightmares he had been trying to forget for years. Out of threat, Dussander started telling Todd everything he had done in the concentration camp. He wanted Dussander to spill all the gooey part of the concentration camp. Todd told him that he wanted to know EVERYTHING about the war. Denker was annoyed with Todd but his annoyance soon changed into a surprised as Todd called him as Kurt Dussander, a fugitive Nazi who had killed thousands of Jews during the war. Todd knocked on the front door of Arthur Denker’s house. The day to show himself in front of the old man finally came. Todd had been spying on an old man for a couple of months. The story begins with the appearance of Todd Bowden, a bright 13 year old boy who once claimed as an apt pupil by his school. Apt Pupil really shows how scary story can turns normal kid into a creepy kid.

Kid will easily corrupted by such killing. This novella really defines my objection on Kick-Ass (a movie), I said in my review that I like Kick-Ass less than anyone I know because of the little girl who goes on killing people but turns up to be normal.

I might not like Apt Pupil as much as Shawshank Redemption, but I still enjoy it a lot. I have reviewed the first novella back in 2010 and will read the next novellas soon.Ī lot of people said that Apt Pupil is the worst novellas in Different Seasons, but I have to disagree with them. I have seen 2 of them and still looking forward to see the other one. My reason for doing this is because this novel contains 4 great novellas, 3 out of these 4 novellas had been made into movies. As I already said before, when I was writing about my Mountain of Books, I am going to read Different Seasons in between other books.