Octavian Nothing (post 4)

“Lord Cheldthorpe strolled around before us so that he could view our faces and judge the visage of punishment. My mother was vomiting; the issue was thin and yellow. She struggled for breath. They ceased. When, trembling, she regained her composure, and her breath came regularly again, Lord Cheldthorpe nodded, and they whipped her one last stroke.”

I knew that was going to happen. I felt that Lord Cheldthorpe was bad from the beginning, something about him and the way he acted. That and the attachment he had towards Octavian’s mother also seemed suspicious. This quote here is showing the result of Octavian’s mother not wanting to go to lord Cheldthorpe’s home town with him. He asked her to go along with him and to leave the college but she did not want to and so they got into a fight and Cheldthorpe got really mad and had her and Octavian put into shackles and beaten. The book is slowly making progress and it gets more interesting with every page. In the start it was a hard book to get into because it seemed to just ramble on about random things but now its picking up and it’s got a lot more interesting. This book is a weird book, it’s a sad book but its also very insightful.