Stone Cold Critical Essay

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 on the streets.

"They avoid looking at me, I'm invisible see."

Once link arrives in London and spends his first night on the streets we feel even more sorry for him as he begins to describe his inner feelings and some of the problems he was facing and some of the ones he could well be facing soon.

Robert Swindells starts by describing Links first step to becoming homeless, Unemployment.

He found that most employers wanted experience, something he had none of, and then there was the fact that he was scruffy and smelly did not help much. Not having a job did not help the situation with his new father, and this made him feel very unwanted.

The next thing we feel sorry for him is his lack of knowledge at the time, he didn't know anything about the streets, where he was, or where he was going. He wasted most of his money on a bed and breakfast when he could have looked elsewhere or found a youth hostel.

On top of all this there are dozens of problems he faces while on the streets, he must constantly be aware of his surroundings, any second somebody could attack him and take everything that he has.

Shelter has some very odd feelings for the homeless, in his mind they are just dirt, they have no purpose in life, that is why it is his goal to "clean up the streets." The most likely explanation for this is because of his career in the army, he took people off the streets and turned them into soldiers, and after the army "Released" him on medical terms he decided to kill homeless people in his own time.

Shelter is clearly a cold hearted murderer with some clear mental health issues, despite these two factors he carried out the first few murders very cleverly.