In a series of letters to her former husband she reveals her internal ambivalence towards motherhood, her struggle to care for the difficult child and her fear and suspicion of Kevin as an adolescent. One year and eight months after her son murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher, Eva Katchadourian is finally ready to share her thoughts on the events that led up to the day she can only refer to as that Thursday. The skill of the writing and relevance of its themes make it a great example of contemporary literature, while the taboo subject matter and escalating tension of the plot give it the quality of the best pop-fiction thrillers. I think the mother must feel some responsibility and guilt when he kills his classmates.We Need to Talk About Kevin is an absolutely superb novel, worthy of the highest acclaim and richly deserving of the impressive sales and many honours, including the 2005 Women’s Prize for Fiction, that have come its way. They’re both cold and judge mental people who show kindness to each other only when mood strikes them.
It’s amazing how you can see that the little psychopath is definitely his mother’s child, even as she’s horrified of him. How would you turn out if your mother and caretaker faked loving you? & I think there’s a genetic component as well. Then again, I’d say it’s definitely partly her fault. She should have taken him to a shrink early on. His disturbing behavior increases as he gets older and he ends up locking his classmates into school and shooting them (after killing his father and sister)
He quickly becomes disturbingly manipulative and has the father eating out of the palm of his hand while he secretly torments the mother. The mother doesn’t want a child, but makes an attempt to love her son -who senses from the beginning that she doesn’t love him and reacts with hostility.
Of course, there are movies like Rosemary’s Baby and the Omen -but this is a much more realistic account of what happens when your child turns out to be the devil.
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