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“Click Clack the Rattle Bag”

In the short story “Click Clack the Rattle Bag” by Neil Gaiman, the author is unclear as to whether the boy is a harmless child or the monster luring the narrator to his lair. I believe that the boy is the monster. The first biggest hint to this can be seen when the narrator says that the dark is a “good place for a monster to come”, and the boy responds with a simple “Yes”. While it can be seen as him just concurring while in fear, it can also be seen as a hint to what he is as he agrees that it is a good place to hide—and he would know because there is no description of him getting more scared after thinking about how many more monsters could be around them in the dark. The boy later says “they come in when you don’t pay attention” almost playing with the narrator because he isn’t paying attention meanwhile, he takes the fact that the boy is holding his hand securely as a friendly gesture, not paying attention to any other reasons the boy could be doing this. The biggest giveaway is when he says that “They look like what you aren’t expecting”. The irony is shown as the narrator believes it would be big and scary meanwhile the boy is the exact opposite—what the narrator wouldn’t expect. Finally, the fact that the place that the boy was leading the narrator to the whole time so steadily and surely ended up being his lair. He wanted the narrator to enter that room all along as he held his hand, guiding him around the large empty house....