Stone Cold Critical Essay

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Stone Cold

Critical Essay

Stone cold by Robert Swindells is a book about a young boy who leaves home and goes to London to live on the streets, and about an ex-army man with mental problems who wants to get rid of homless people on the streets of London.

In my essay I will discuss how the author uses uses dual-narrative effectively.

I also intend to discuss how Swindells makes me feel sympathy towards homeless people and how he makes the average person with a house and a job seem unkind.

Robert Swindells uses Links situation and his thoughts and feeling to make us feel sympathetic towards homeless people. We feel sorry for Link because of the situation at home with his mums new boyfriend, and how link could do nothing to stop him and was "Forced to move on."

He also speaks as link in the first person, this lets us find out how he feels on the inside and things he might not tell anyone, through this we then understand the story with his step-dad through his own eyes, and how he knows what everybody is thinking when they see him