Having read Free Dinners' from Come to Mecca analyse Farrukh Dhondy's prsentation of the character of Lorraine.

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HAVING READ 'FREE DINNERS' FROM 'COME TO MECCA' ANALYSE FARRUKH DHONDY'S PRESENTATION OF THE CHARATER OF LORRAINE.

'Come to Mecca' is a colletion of short stories written by Farrukh Dhondy focusing on the racism in Britian. Dhondy tries to show the image of the new generation especailly the young generation. The language he used in the stories is natural to show city's people behaviour towards each other.

All of his stories mainly focus on single person from different angle of the attitudes towards them. ' Free Dinners' focuses on Lorraine, a young, mixed race girl who is confused about what society she is belong to. Lorraine confronts authority at school and then on the streets later in her life. Dhondy always used the language that is more realistic and obscene, and try to show real society we are living in. The narrator of this story is actually the classmate of Lorraine and he shows the image of Lorraine through his eyes. Pete tries to show the way Lorraine changes in the circumstances as she grew up and her character. Pete attitudes towards Lorraine tells us that time changes the people character, attitude and life. The time is the very sensitive and deliberate thing that can't be wasted and have to used it very carefully.
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Pete and all his classmates used to abuse and tease her in the school time because she is one out two people who used to depend on free school dinner. But Lorraine never cares about these things and usually ignores the whole people and hangs around on her own. Lorraine seems to act like a mature and intelligent girl. Pete who at first is very ignorant and prejudiced, but becomes more comprehensible towards Lorraine. Pete attitude towards Lorraine changes as he starting to know her, he always got attracted by the way she deal with things in the ...

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