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Helena Kingshaw
Anthony Fielding first appears late in the novel, but he’s one of the most important people in Charles Kingshaw’s life. The child of a working-class family, Anthony is calm, self-possessed, and matter-of-fact about everything, even when other boys try to intimidate him. While he shares the same social class as Charles, Anthony is mature and fearless where Charles is frequently paranoid or unsure of himself. Anthony gives Charles some valuable advice about self-reliance, assuring Charles that Edmund Hooper, while he may be intimidating, will not bring physical harm to Charles. As wise as this advice is, it does nothing to make Charles feel better: Edmund has already gotten inside Charles’s head. Anthony can’t understand it, but Charles is unable to control the fear he feels for Edmund.
Anthony Fielding Quotes in I’m the King of the Castle
The I’m the King of the Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Anthony Fielding or refer to Anthony Fielding. 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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Chapter 14
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Kingshaw thought, he knows everybody and they know him. He lives here, and I live here, now, but I don't know anyone or anything, except Mrs Boland and the woman at the post office. Hooper doesn't know anybody, either, we might as well be on the moon. He thought of Warings, surrounded by the high hedge, dark and inaccessible. All the time, this other boy had been watching, aware of him.
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Kingshaw nodded, numb before this battery of experience, bewildered by so many sights and smells and terrible truths, but still willing to be led by Fielding, to be shown everything at once.
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Chapter 16
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From the doorway, watching them, Kingshaw thought, Hooper believes him, he isn't going to make him open the case and put his hand on one, he isn't going to make him prove it, he just believes him. That's the way Fielding is, that's the way you should be, It had been different with him. Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Fielding’s face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid. Why, thought Kingshaw, why? His eyes suddenly pricked with tears, at the unfairness of it. WHY?
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Anthony Fielding Quotes in I’m the King of the Castle
The I’m the King of the Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Anthony Fielding or refer to Anthony Fielding. 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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Chapter 14
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Kingshaw thought, he knows everybody and they know him. He lives here, and I live here, now, but I don't know anyone or anything, except Mrs Boland and the woman at the post office. Hooper doesn't know anybody, either, we might as well be on the moon. He thought of Warings, surrounded by the high hedge, dark and inaccessible. All the time, this other boy had been watching, aware of him.
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Kingshaw nodded, numb before this battery of experience, bewildered by so many sights and smells and terrible truths, but still willing to be led by Fielding, to be shown everything at once.
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Chapter 16
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From the doorway, watching them, Kingshaw thought, Hooper believes him, he isn't going to make him open the case and put his hand on one, he isn't going to make him prove it, he just believes him. That's the way Fielding is, that's the way you should be, It had been different with him. Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Fielding’s face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid. Why, thought Kingshaw, why? His eyes suddenly pricked with tears, at the unfairness of it. WHY?
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