Name : Amanda Lo Class : S5C

School No : 07044

Book Call No : F PER

Book Title : Little Children

Author: Tom Perrota

Setting

This story is set in a little suburban town, where nieghbours know each other. Which means conflicts and insecurities are very hard to hide.

Character

A few parents of young children are portrayed inn this novel. Todd, the stay-at-home dad dubbed the Prom King by the mothers at the playground, his wife Kathy, a documentary film maker who just wants to spend more time with her son, Sarah, a lapsed feminist surprised to find that she's become a typical wife in a traditional marriage, her husband, Richard, who's more involved in an Internet fantasy life than his own real life etc.

Conflict

All these parents raise their kids as they see fit in the little suburb where nothing ever seems to happen. until one summer, when a convicted child molester moves in. the parents question everything they do, and everyone they know, and realise nothing is what it seems, as two parents begin an affair that none of them could have imagined.

Conclusion

Some marriages are torn, because they were never meant to be together in the first place. they learn that behind those rose-tinted sunglasses, the world is not as rosy as they were taught to see.

Opinion

This story exposes a surprising sight of a familiar world.