Societys Rejects and Barry Hines Kestrel for a Knave Essay -- Barry

Societys Rejects and Barry Hines Kestrel for a KnaveA kestrel for a knave is about a poor troubled Yorkshire lad by thename of billystick Casper. What he imagines to be out of reach andunbelievable are things we take for granted. He imagines bop from hisparents and just normal, every day things like fish and chips forsupper and someone being nice to him. For billy club, that is a dream thatwill neer become reality.Treated as a failure at school and unhappy at home, Billy discovers anew passion in feel when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billyidentifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trustand love that nothing else can. I dont presuppose that Kes gives Billy thepower to revolutionize and turn around his social life, because shedoesnt. But Kes is extremely close to Billys heart. Kes gives Billya sense of satisfaction and achievement. Kes gives Billy the will tolive another day while other is Billys position would have given upon life tenacious ago. Kes is e ffectively Billys best friend and whom hespends most of his spare time with and would have continues to do soafter he left over(p) school if event wouldnt have gone the way they haddone.Billy is portrayed as someone who has given up on everything as heknows he wont get a warrant chance, and that hes future is going downthe same road as his older blood brother Jud. Billy has been made to lookafter himself for most of his life as hes dad has left him and hismum is too busy deplorable about herself. Hes had to learn to find waysto find food and that is stealing from anyone, anywhere. For examplehe takes a bottle of milk from the milkman, he steals sweets from thelittle store where he has a job to deliver newspapers. The shop ... ...assroom. This is also a good example forhis punctuation as he uses diddle sentences, the scuffle of a turningpage etc. the problem with using so much description is that itleaves the readers having no imagination on the scene or character. Most of the book is written as Billys thoughts on things and hedoesnt use speech that much to describe things.This book reflects on many issues that still carry on today but havegot even more serious. It shows how lucky we are to have a family whocare and love us and how important it is not to take it for granted,as there are many children who dont know the feeling of being loved.I think Barry Hines used a very good story to bring the message acrosson how people can be made to feel. And that everyone deserves a secondchance and should not be judged on wealth but on the persons moralsand personality.