![]() ![]() The next day, Riddley delivers his first interpretation to the village. The prime minister, Goodparley, and the deputy, Orfing, meet with Riddley before and prepare him for the event. The prime minister of the local government and his deputy visit Riddley’s village and put on a Eusa show. The puppet shows tell the story of Eusa, an apparently historical figure who helped to invent the bombs which destroyed the world. As the connexion man, he is given the job of interpreting the meaning of the puppet shows put on by the government. Riddley takes over his father’s job as the village’s connexion man. The community begins to worry that the series of deaths involving Riddley is a bad sign. ![]() Later that day, Riddley also kills the elderly leader of a pack of wild dogs. Three days later, his father dies while excavating an ancient machine from the ground. On his 12th birthday, Riddley kills the last boar in the area. Riddley and his community speak in a broken, phonetic version of English in a society which rarely writes anything down. A young boy named Riddley Walker lives in Inland, the name given to the south of England 2,000 years after a nuclear war sent human society back to stone age levels of technology. ![]()
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