A monster calls novel pdf Continue Novel by Patrick Ness For the film adaptation of the novel, see Monster Calls (film). Monster Calls First Edition coverAuthorPatrick NessIllustratorJim KayCover ArtistJim KayCountryUnidal KingdomLanguageEnglishGenreFantasy NovelPublishment6SherWalker Books5 May 2011'1'1'1'1'1'1 Media typePrint (hardcover)Pages214 page (first edition)ISBN978-1-4063-1152-5OCLC755586643LC ClassP'7. N43843 MOK 2011 is a 2011 novel about monsters written for young people by Patrick Ness, originally written by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay and published by Walker in 2011. In modern England there is a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's illness. He repeatedly visited in the middle of the night a monster that tells stories. Dowd was terminally ill with cancer herself when she started the story and died before she could write it. Ness and Kay won the Carnegie Medal and the Greenway Medal in 2012, the best children's literary award for British Librarians (CILIP). Monster Calls is the only book that won both medals. The novel was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name. The origin of Siobhan Dowd conceived a novel when she had cancer. She discussed it and contracted to write it with editor Denise Johnstone-Burt at Walker Books, who also worked with Patrick Ness. After Dowd's death in August 2007, Walker arranged with Ness to write the story. Walker and Ness later arranged for Jim Kay to illustrate this, but Ness and Kay did not meet until it was published in May 2011. After winning at Carnegie, Ness discussed the letter with the Guardian newspaper: If I felt difficult at all - again, even for very good reasons - something that hurts history, I think. And I did it not for egomaniacal reasons, that my decisions were somehow automatically right or some kind of nonsense, but because I know that this is what Siobhan would do. She'd release it, let it grow and change, so I wasn't trying to guess what she could write, I was just after the same process she'd followed, that's a different thing. ... I always say that it was a really private conversation between me and her, and that basically it was me saying: Just look at what we get off the face of power. Kay was chosen based on an illustration of one scene requested by art director Ben Norland: Because of other commitments, I had a weekend to create an image, and I very hastily created a monster scene leaning against the house. It was a method that I had not tried before, dictated to some extent by the time constraints that hindsight might have helped. ... I present history as a moving film or part of a theater, and I start building props and setting the scenery. Characters. I love the atmosphere and I think that's what I wanted to contribute. If I had been left alone, I would have avoided all the key scenes I was nervous about dealing with them, but Ben was fantastic in giving the structure of the book and, thankfully, insisting that I have to tackle the explosive, energetic elements of the book. Plot Thirteen-year-old Conor O'Malley wakes up from the same nightmare he has been experiencing for the past few months, one with darkness and the wind and screaming. Seven minutes after midnight (12:07), he hears from outside from behind a bedroom window that overlooks the old church and its cemetery, protected by a yew tree. Approaching the window, Conor meets the called monster, a towering mass of branches and leaves formed in human form from a yew tree. The monster is intrigued by the fact that Conor is not afraid of it and insists that Conor call him. The monster claims to be a version of the green man and warns that he will tell Conor three true stories, after which Conor must tell his own story, and if it is not, the monster will eat him. The Monster continues to meet with Conor to tell his stories, almost always at 12:07 or evenings, which are all related to other cases the monster has been called. Between his stories, which are aimed at demonstrating the complications inherent in people, it was revealed that Conor's mother is undergoing chemotherapy and has been suffering from incurable cancer for the past year. Conor is isolated and lonely. His flaky father uses his new family in the U.S. as an excuse to be torn off and unsupported. His distant relationship with his assertive and cold grandmother also does not provide comfort. Conor is a victim of bullying at school and he has distanced himself from all social contacts except the monster. As the story progresses, his mother's condition deteriorates, and Conor's encounters with the monster have escalating consequences. The plot also mentions the alleged Pete the Monster and the Heavenly Monster. At the end of the book, the reader learns why the monster was walking and about the nightmare Conor is afraid of: Conor holds on to his mother's hands, squeezing it tightly as she is about to fall off a cliff. Conor loosens his grip, allowing his mother to fall intentionally, though he could have held on to her for longer. The monster came for Conor to confess his mother's truth about how he wanted her to die, that she didn't suffer, he didn't feel so isolated, and to end the pain for both of them. By doing so, Conor can finally let go of his mother. At 12:07, when the monster usually arrived, Conor's mother passed, and so did all their pain. Conor's tale was a story. Four Stories First Story The Old King, who lost his entire family except for a young grandson, once again marries a beautiful young woman many claim to be a witch. He dies before the young prince comes to age, padea's grandmother as regent. She rules well and fairly, but, not wanting to hand over the kingdom, plans to marry a prince and remain queen. The prince, who has a lover, escapes with his chosen bride, planning to escape to the neighboring kingdom. There they get married and wait until he has time to claim the throne. They stop and sleep under the yew (monster), but in the morning a young woman is dead, being killed, and a shocked young prince is covered in blood. He believes that the queen must have killed her bride out of jealousy to keep her throne. Furious, simplicity rallied around the prince to storm the castle, and the monster followed. They capture the queen and condemn her to burn at the stake. The monster arrives to snatch her from the fire and take her to a distant land where she lives for the rest of her life. Although unpleasant and witch, she was not the one who killed the girl. The Prince killed her under a yew tree to inspire his people to support him in overthrowing the queen. This story also discusses the need for people to lie to themselves, such as the prince, who sincerely believes that the queen is responsible for the death of her fiance despite her being killed by hand, and their willingness to believe that these lies are for their own comfort and happiness. The second story is a greedy, evil pharmacist who follows old traditions and beliefs to constantly pester the parish to allow him to cut down a yew tree in the cemetery and use it for medicinal ingredients. The pharmacist is becoming less and less popular and almost destroyed, with the support of his own pharmacist's foul character and active condemnation of his men from the pulpit. When the disease sweeps the ground and many die, the parish goes to the pharmacist and asks him to save the lives of his two sick daughters after all other resources are exhausted. When the pharmacist asks why he should help a man who has turned his back on his skills and denied him a tea tree, his best source of medicinal ingredients begs the arrival. The parish promises to give him a yew tree and deliver parishioners to him as patients. In response to Parson's promise to rescind his beliefs and give up everything if only his daughters are healed, the pharmacist says he can't help the ward and the girls die. The monster wakes up from the yew tree to destroy the house of the snuggle and demolish it to the ground as punishment. While the pharmacist was a nasty, greedy man, he was a healer and would have saved many, including girls, if the parish had given him a yew tree when he was first asked. Parsons, however, was a man who lived beyond the basis of faith but had none of his own and changed beliefs as it suited him and convenience. His disbelief in the pharmacist's skill caused many to die, even his The traditions of healing, followed by the pharmacist, require faith to work; without a living room, the pharmacist was unable to treat the two girls. At the end of the story, Conor is involved as a monster destroys a snout's house to wake up and discover that he has trashed his grandmother's living room, destroying many valuable and beloved items beyond repair. The third story was a man who was invisible because no one had ever seen him. Tired of this, he caused a monster so that no one would forget to see him again.