There are also elements within the novel which demonstrate Kevins sociopathic behaviour, for example in one extract Kevin is accused by a neighbour of loosening the front tyre of their child’s bike when the father of the child approaches Eva and exclaims that his son ’could’ve been killed.’ Once Eva confronts Kevin he replies ’he thinks he’s so cool on that bicycle’ to which Eva says ’I didn’t remember mentioning anything about a bicycle.’Įva finds out that she is pregnant but doesn’t inform Franklin until he sees her swelling belly. Kevin says that 'he fell' from the changing table whilst Eva was getting some wipes to which she realises that now she 'owes him' one. She deeply regrets what she did and rushes him to the hospital when they return home she is terrified in case he informs Franklin of what has happened. Not only does this display the build up and release of Eva’s frustration, but it also shows a violent streak within her nature which left Kevin with a broken arm. In one significant part in the book, Eva had just changed Kevin twice and it smelt like he’d done it again, which made her lose control and throw him half way across the nursery so that he landed with a 'clang' against the stainless steel changing table. However, the way she describes Violetta’s reaction as being filled with ’plain enjoyment’ which made her appear 'wilder' and ’more primitive’, it hints that Kevin was the culprit and that she had 'itched' and she’d ’given in.’Įva explains how Kevin would leave excrement after she had just changed his 'diaper', which she believes he wore on purpose until he was six years old. Eva implies that Kevin co-ursed Violetta into caving into to her desire to itch which made her skin break and bleed, although there is no hard evidence that he did. Kevin is found in the toilet with Violetta, a young girl who suffers extensively from eczema and finds it difficult to stop itching her burning skin. During Kevin’s childhood he immediately begins to display signs of abnormal behaviour when he is in Kindergarten he breaks an expensive tea set which belonged to a classmate so that everyone copies to the dismay of the child’s parents, but the incident with Violetta was one that truly unnerved me.
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