ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Buccaneer, Itch, Gallows
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But i was only a boy, and i had made my mind up. This was my second folly, far worse than my first, as i left but two sound men to guard the house; but like the first, it was a help towards saving all of us. French leave: french are cowardly and don t play by british rules this is a bit of. I was only child and children disobey: not following the adult rules is what saves the day. There is both a celebration and a disapproval of the disobedience: the disobedience is for the good, the retrospective voice allows for disapproval to be shown as it the adult moral perspective. Jim must leave the group in order to be a hero with the adults, jim is still only a child. Individualism: the child must be an individual in order to be successful. This whole thing is a massive child fantasy:
