Ed, after realizing Chris had read the letters, tells Chris not only that he lied about his mother’s death, but that he was also the one who killed Wellington after a fight with Ms. Shears! Chris runs away from home in a search to live with his mother, ashamed, and afraid that his father might kill Chris after murdering Wellington. Finding his mom is no easy task however. He must travel to London, a thing he his petrified of and dodge the policemen that have been sent out to find him and return him home. The overload of information makes Chris feel sick, as part of his disability includes extreme sensitivity to huge loads of information.
The alarm is sounded and Edward is left in the house and caught by the police. Edward is eventually not charged as an evaluation of him, proves he has no real sense of reality. Joyce a neighbour, who tries to seduce Edward unsuccessfully, spreads malicious rumours of Edward in which the town’s people believe and on top of the robbery too is made an outcast and the Boggs family who have taken in Edward are also made outcast. Eventually it escalates and the town’s people think and believe that Edward is guilty of all these malicious rumours and mishappens. Edward Flees to his home where he was made and Jim catches him in his old mansion.
Link refers to his origin as "up north" to avoid revealing his birth place. After a few bad days of being homeless he meets Ginger, a streetwise person who has been homeless for quite some time. But Link does not trust him entirely, because every time, when Ginger leaves him, Link feels scared and guesses that Ginger goes to his real mates. Shelter Shelter is a former sergeant-major who is on a mission to kill all of the homeless people of London, because they he considers they 'make the place look untidy.' He means too that there is nobody who does anything against them.
This is nothing but a sad story of a teenage boy gone from good to bad, who leads other kids into his “revenge” against the higher class. Their mission is to destroy an innocent man’s house and their reason is because it is still standing from the Blitzkrieg of London. 7) Though each and every individual in the Wormsley Common Gang is a delinquent, the whole gang itself has qualities which can be smiled upon. The gang’s values are flipped compared to other, usual gangs. First of all, they reject personal gain, forget personal rivalries, and maintain their own justice within their gang framework.
Alessandro feels for his eldest brother and decides to solve all his problems by planning a collective suicide of all the family members including himself. He is a mad epileptic, but evokes the audience into caring about him. Even though he obviously is suicidal and has an extreme case of depression, Alessandro takes on the families guilt of not being able to fit into norm. The youngest son, Leone, is stuck in a childish paradox because of the lack of parental attention. He represents the typical attention starved youngest child in a family.
Billy reveals himself as a reject, a thief and a troubled character who rejected a restrictive and disciplined education system. The cause of his alienation and isolation appears to be physical and psychological abuse from his school and his run down neighborhood. Billy has a sense of belonging to a sport, to a team, a normal part of a persons childhood. After accidentally kicking the ball into the window and cracking the glass, Billy's father over-reacts and violently hits him. "gave me one backhander/across the face/so hard I fell down...
As the story of human nature, those children were innocent, but they have influenced by the society at the time. The story is about a group of children who call themselves the Wormsley Common gang and try to destroy a house when the owner were gone. However, when the plan is nearly to the end, that the owner, Mr. Thomas (Old Misery) has returned home earlier than expected. Trevor (T.) , the leader of gang devised a plan to trap Old Misery in his own lavatory in order to finish the demolition. The story creates some rough elements of literary fiction, character suspense, complex character and unsettling ending.
[David] flinched back and he [Carl] grabbed the back of [David’s] neck with fingers like a vise. ‘You’re nothing but a lazy brat. I’m going to beat some industry into you if I have to kill you to do it.”’ (Gould, 3) David’s earlier years have been hard, resulting him being unpopular, and being unsatisfied. David begins to feel sick and tired of the abuse from his father and decides to run away from home. David starts to develop hatred towards his father, wanting to hurt and give him the pain he has felt over the years.
Firstly, Brown uses a case study to encourage the readers to respond on an emotional level. This is achieved by discussing the tragic incident of 19 year old Brian Naylor, a night out on the town with a few mates is soon ruined by a group of alcohol fuelled teens that ‘viciously’ attack him and his friends. Secondly, Brown appeals to his reader’s emotions with his use of emotional tone coupled with adjectives designed to paint the actions of smashed teenagers as disrespectful and potentially dangerous. “A machine is keeping him alive” signals the writers disbelief of how a perfect night out can ultimately turn into a parent’s worst nightmare, having their child taken away. The reader’s emotional response positions them to share Brown’s
He is later killed by a man who is sent by Tom. Towards the end of the novel, Nick runs into them as they are leaving for a long vacation, and finally realizes how truly ruthless and greedy Tom and Daisy are: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” (Fitzgerald, 179). Nick doesn’t seem to have any desire to talk to them again, due to what they had done to Gatsby. He also doesn’t think it is fair of Daisy to, after all that Gatsby had gone through to show Daisy that he loved her, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him after his death. She did not so much as send flowers or a sympathy card.