The Devil and His Boy

Tanner Hakert

English 8-6

Explore Feelings

March 4, 2010

Spoiler

During the beginning of the book, The Devil and His Boy, by Anthony Horowitz, Tom is looking for something to d while he is on his Journey. A man, Grimly, asks Tom if he would like to work for charity, but its not the type of charity that Tom was expecting. "They might give a penny to a child shivering with cold But how much do you think they would give to that same child, missing a leg?" (63). This scene is the turning point in Tom's atitude. Tom learns that he needs to be very cautious everywhere he goes because if he isn't, he could die. Tom's change in atitude could have helped him later in the book, but he let his guard down, and it almost got him killed.