What about Noah? (SPOILERS)

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2004)

Did Noah know what was going on? He had no fear of the woods, in spite of the terror of everyone around him, and I don't think that can be explained away by mental retardation alone. Even a mentally handicapped child can and will experience fear when it's appropriate, and it's fairly reasonable to assume that if Noah had the mental capacity to understand Ivy's engagement to Lucius and its effect on him, he could understand being afraid of the creatures in the woods. Also, the elders spent so much time and energy instilling fear of the woods in all their children, which meant that Noah should have been hearing the same warnings from his own parents from day one. I'm sure they would have had at least some effect. But Noah remained unafraid of the woods, and deemed the frightening noises issuing from them as no more than a reason to laugh.
As for his finding the suit, it seemed a little too contrived to me that, while locked in the choir room, he would have suddenly been inspired to pull up the floorboards in only the spot where the suit was kept, unless he knew it was there. Also, since I think those guttural growls and snarls the creatures made aren't really something the human voice can produce, I assumed that the suits might have included some sort of recording device that played the sounds. Which also means that Noah was able to operate them. Maybe he'd worn them before?