Analyse the first chapter of Chloe Hooper's 'A Child's True Book of Crime'.
Fresh from college, Kate Byrne, a 22-year-old, is working in her first job teaching, a fourth grade class in Endport, a small town on the southern coast of Tasmania. Strangely childlike, Kate is embroiled in a love affair with the father of her most gifted student, Lucien Marne. Kate's liaison, Thomas Marne is a successful corporate lawyer in Hobart. The first chapter of 'A Children's True Book of Crime' primarily focuses on the relationship between …
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…Through the dialogue, it becomes apparent that Thomas is in control of their movements, especially Kate's. Thomas treats Kate as almost a possession: a live sex toy. His comments, "I know exactly what I am going to do to you," indicate that Thomas is using Kate for his own sexual fulfillment. Kate admits that she, "fell into adultery," but Thomas, it appears, planned the seduction. <Tab/><Tab/>
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