writing from a character's point of view.
G.C.S.E English CourseworkPersonal writing: Fiction Text: 'Joby' By Stan Barstow Assignment: writing from a character’s point of view. Joby Weston : This summer lots of things happened to me which I will never forget because firstly, my mum had to go into hospital, became friends with Gus and Tommy after having a fight with Gus, and also found out about my dad and Mona. It at all began on the first of the summer when my mum was going to hospital for an operation which I don’t know anything about. I had to stay with my aunt daisy even though I didn’t want to and wanted to stay with my dad. It was really strange because my dad was off ill from work despite the fact he complained about taking time off to take my mum to the hospital. when I came home to pick up my comic Mona came out of my dads room looking all red and worn out but said she was only talking to him , so I collected my comic and finished off reading it. Later that day I went to the cinema with my mate 'SNAP' but Gus Wilson was sitting behind us firing pellets at us , when he missed it hit the attendant and the old man thought it was us , so I got thrown out by the daft old man. So I got my refund and left before the movie had even started, I saw Mollie
McLeod coming round the corner, I asked if she wanted to walk down to the railroad station so she did. So we set off to the railroad station, when Mollie wanted to look for her sister Agnes and she said that Agnes was in a small wood up ahead, so we headed off there and eventually found her, so I left and headed back to the cinema for ‘SNAP’, when Gus Wilson started pushing me into 'SNAP' so I punched him and we got into a fight, when he pushed me into the wall, when that old attendant came out ...
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McLeod coming round the corner, I asked if she wanted to walk down to the railroad station so she did. So we set off to the railroad station, when Mollie wanted to look for her sister Agnes and she said that Agnes was in a small wood up ahead, so we headed off there and eventually found her, so I left and headed back to the cinema for ‘SNAP’, when Gus Wilson started pushing me into 'SNAP' so I punched him and we got into a fight, when he pushed me into the wall, when that old attendant came out and told us to clear off. After getting rid of Tommy and Gus I headed back home, I found my father having tea and his stomach was better and we started talking. I was going to go back to my aunt daisies but I had a better idea, I was going to see my mother in hospital , so I caught the bus over to the hospital and went in there and ran out as I couldn’t face seeing my mother . When I got home aunt Daisy was livid with me so I didn’t eat my dinner. The next day she forced me to go to the chapel with her twice and had now made me go to Sunday school , when we got back it was dads turn to have a go at me about staying out late , before heading off to the hospital to see my mam , so I got them to take a letter I wrote so she would write me one back , but before he went he went to do the washing up , so aunt daisy went for a 10 minute sleep I wrote my letter , when I could hear my father and Mona giggling next door , when I saw through a mirror my dad kiss Mona , when Mona came through the door I gave her my letter to give to dad and they went to the hospital , I left home to go to Sunday school when I caught up with Gus and Tommy , when they told me Snap’s uncle had hung himself last night , then I went to head off when Gus and Tommy convinced me to not go and instead hang around with them after Sunday school was due to finish , I went home only to have aunt daisy start her where have you been attitude , she had also found out about me going to the hospital . I got the letter from my mum which confused me a bit but I thought nothing of it at the time. I hadn’t seen Snap for a while now, I waited for him to come and see me now. I had also started hanging out with Gus and Tommy a lot , there was something very good about being with Gus , when we went into the chemists to get a prescription for Tommy’s father , they both started stealing stuff , I felt like running away , but I left the shop quietly and walked off , hoping I would not be seen as an accomplice , they got away with it and told me this happens all the time , the next time they stole , I helped them , although I didn’t steal anything , it gave me a thrill . I was thrilled to hear my mam was coming home, and that things were not as serious as they could have been. Snap finally came to talk to me again , we had a quick chat and he went off , when I suddenly thought what my mother had said about him not being someone I should hang out with , I mean did he back me up when I got thrown out of the pictures ? I wrote a letter to Elsa accompanied with the perfume Tommy had stolen at the chemists the other day , Gus gave it to Elsa’s friend to give to her , although I had now thought it was a bad idea and I could be made to look stupid, when I was out with Gus and Tommy next we went into a shop to get some chewing gum , when us reached into a jar and nicked some toffees and I followed suit , when Gus went to nick some cigarettes from behind the counter , an elderly man asked us what we were doing , and locked the door to stop us from escaping, when he made us go into a room , and told us how we were thief’s , and said he would report us if we did it again , we went off relieved and said we would stop , when Gus produced a pack of cigarettes he hadn’t given back I told him I had to go and got as far as possible away from him , I heard my mother talking about Mollie McLeod sister to a neighbour about how she was having a baby , I ran off before she could ask me if I knew who it was that done it , I ran off after telling a man in a black car directions to my own house , when I ran into Mollie McLeod , who didn’t seem troubled at all , and told me about her sister , when I got back it turned out it was Elsa’s dad I had given directions to , and that he was wondering why his daughter had been given an expensive bottle of perfume , my mam found out it was a stolen bottle and was extremely disappointed and upset with me , I apologized to her and headed off to read my comic , I came down later on but stopped to hear my aunt daisy and my mam talking to each other about Mona and my dad , I listened in as they talked about who was at fault , apparently my dad had ran off with Mona but she had come back and everyone found out about it , I came down for some water and my mam gave me 2 biscuits and sent me off to bed , I still heard them talking , and heard me mam blaming Mona for being so stupid . The next day I went to see if snap was in , but the only person there was an old lady who asked me to read a letter for her , I pretended not to be able to read handwriting as the letter was about her sons little girl being run over and killed by a bus , and I didn’t want to tell her such horrifying news , when I went back aunt daisy , uncle Ted and mam were talking again so I was sent out , I went down the field and saw my dad and started talking to him , I told him that uncle Ted mam and aunt daisy were waiting for him at home , after I while I started questioning him about why he liked Mona more than my mam , my father sent me off and said I could tell me mam he was there , but then I went back to get him , we talked and he said he would come back , I got on his shoulders and he walked us home .