The author indicates Noise through the use of font. On pages 20–22, Todd refers to the Noise that fills his life. On page 51, Ben tells Todd that “knowledge is dangerous.” At one point in the story (page 142), Todd realizes, “The world’s a dangerous place when you don’t know enough.” How does Todd’s lack of education and knowledge affect his journey, especially in terms of his inability to read Ben’s note and map or his mother’s journal? How does the denial of education allow totalitarian government s (like that in Prentisstown) to control their citizens? 5. In fact, reading and writing are forbidden by the Mayor of Prentisstown. Todd tells us on pages 18 and 19 that he has had little education. What do these unfamiliar terms refer to? 4.
I really like that kind of world building.” What clues did you pick up early on that led you to the conclusion that the book is set in a world different from our own? Look for words and phrases such as grublets, cassors, crested pine, fission- bike, and Packy Vines. Todd has always lived there, so it’s not another planet, it’s home. Some people don’t realize they’re on another planet for a hundred pages, which I like. In a July 2009 interview at he said, “I started thinking, how would settlers really be? What would they really do? I thought that they would take names from Earth and stick them on whatever seemed closest. Ness imagines what it might be like to settle a new world.
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