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Roald’s Uncle
Thwaites is the only one of Roald’s friends from the Llandaff Cathedral School whose name he remembers. Since his father is a doctor with a penchant for telling elaborate stories, Thwaites confidently relates fiction as fact to his friends. When Roald plays his dead mouse prank on Mrs. Pratchett, Thwaites is the one to distract her. Thwaites often seems to be the loudest and most confident boy in the group, and perhaps because of this, Mrs. Pratchett recognizes him first when pointing out the boys to Mr. Coombes. The last memory of Thwaites that Roald documents is of the smallness of his bottom while Mr. Coombes strikes him with the cane, underlining his powerlessness at the hands of the powerful and cruel Headmaster.
Thwaites Quotes in Boy
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6. Mrs Pratchett’s Revenge
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Mr. Coombes stood back and took up a firm stance with his legs well apart. I thought how small Thwaites’s bottom looked and how very tight it was. Mr. Coombes had his eyes focused squarely upon it. He raised his cane high above his shoulder, and as he brought it down, it made a loud swishing sound, and then there was a crack like a pistol shot as it struck Thwaites’s bottom.
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12. The Matron
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And the Matron, as we all knew, would follow after him and stand at the top of the stairs listening with a funny look on her face for the crack… crack… crack of the cane that would soon be coming up from below. To me that noise always sounded as though the Headmaster was firing a pistol at the ceiling of his study.
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Thwaites Quotes in Boy
The Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Thwaites or refer to Thwaites. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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6. Mrs Pratchett’s Revenge
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Mr. Coombes stood back and took up a firm stance with his legs well apart. I thought how small Thwaites’s bottom looked and how very tight it was. Mr. Coombes had his eyes focused squarely upon it. He raised his cane high above his shoulder, and as he brought it down, it made a loud swishing sound, and then there was a crack like a pistol shot as it struck Thwaites’s bottom.
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12. The Matron
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And the Matron, as we all knew, would follow after him and stand at the top of the stairs listening with a funny look on her face for the crack… crack… crack of the cane that would soon be coming up from below. To me that noise always sounded as though the Headmaster was firing a pistol at the ceiling of his study.
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