The book is both a comfort to Eva, this one thing she knows her son likes, and an olive branch to extend when he comes back into her life. Whatever the reason, Eva keeps a copy of this on the bookshelf in her spare bedroom, the room Kevin will take when he gets out of jail. Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin features a ripped-from-the-headlines plot about a school shooter, but it is much more a story about the dark side of. Is he taking something from other people and giving it to his mother? Like general human emotion, perhaps? Or, like Eva, are we just reading too much into it? But what if we don't think about money, exactly? Kevin does feel like an outsider. And he uses his sharpshooting skills to, you know, kill his classmates.īut is there a deeper connection between Kevin and this book? Does he somehow identify with Robin Hood? It isn't like Kevin is a person who is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. soon to be a major motion film starring Austin Butlerto name a few. She resents her kid for what she perceives as Kevin interrupting her lifes ambitions increasingly seeing Kevins mere existence (let alone his. "Kevin Khatchadourian could put an arrow through an apple-or an ear-from fifty meters" (27.3). Starring: Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul and Diane Kruger. I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin. Eva has no idea why Kevin likes it-but the book sure serves as a grim foreshadowing of Kevin's archery talents. When Kevin is sick, Eva reads him Robin Hood and His Merry Men.
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