Theres a lot of pressure on Charlie to be ‘the man of the house’ It was more in the way he was able to make things right.’ Squizzy’s reaction to Charlie’s bad behaviour p. Hard to mouth and day to day, that’s how it was.’ Pg. ‘The streets of Richmond were like pages in a book. ‘That night I turned sixteen years old’ and the rape pg. Hallucinations of the women on the wall page 66 It was in their walk, their clothes and their eyes. ‘you learnt quickly how to survive in the slums. ‘stepped into the long pants of adulthood’ ‘the poor were denied the luxury of grieving’ – Charlie p.28 He promised himself he would live in a house with pink walks – p.27 ‘buisinessman, business man, business man’ – p. The difference between his narration and his talking voices ‘left, right, left, right, left, right.’ P. ‘To be poor was to be cold… but me I refused to let it take me.’ Ya’ll learn nothing with the daydreamers down the back.’- MA
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