While out collecting apples for Ben one day, Todd discovers something.
The germ that brought the Noise, also wiped out every girl and every woman, including his mother. Todd lives on a farm on the outskirts of town, with two men, Ben and Cillian, who took him in when his mother died. So even when mouths are shut, the cacophony of Noise that surrounds you, can send you mad. This Noise allows everyone to hear everyone else’s thoughts – even from a distance. There was a great war where the Spackle (original inhabitants of the planet where Todd lives) fought the humans then released a germ called The Noise. There are only Misters, as no girls or woman live in Prentisstown. As such he is called Todd, where everyone else is called Mister ….
He’s the youngest in town, the last ‘boy’. In days he will turn 13, and in Prentisstown where he lives, 13 is the crossover from a boy to a man.
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