To begin with:
- Imagine living in a world in which all your thoughts can be heard by everyone
- This world has no women
- You are the youngest child - around 13 years old
This is the world in which Todd Hewitt lives in.
Genre: Dystopia/Science Fiction
Setting: New World - a planet colonized by a small group of Christian settlers
Settlements: Prentisstown, Farbranch, Brockley Falls, other unnamed settlements
Written in: present tense
Point of view: First person
Narrator: 13 year old Todd Hewitt
He is the protagonist.
Apart from his dog, Manchee, he is alone.
His home is Prentisstown.
Important elements:
- the Noise - all men are infected by the Noise germ, but women are immune to it for an unknown reason
- the Spackle : the native species on New World