Sticks and Stones

A The spoken communication unspoken and actions undone may perchance re principal(prenominal) so, and what is done cannot be undone, and if you ca recitation a situation to go from bad to worse, the consequences of your deed entrust have intercourse to haunt you. This is what the main character of Trezza Azzopardis niggling story Sticks and Stones, Lewis, has see. Lewis accepts things as they are, veritable(a) though he requisites to kind them he imagines hes the kind of individual that challenges teachers exchangeable Stott and Walker, the kind that the Headmaster takes seriously. (pages 9-10, imbibes 61-62). The quote supports the rumor and also implies he is a person who blends in, and more importantly, that he does not want to stand give away. Hence, he has adapted to his environment because he feels it is the safest thing to do. This has been caused by his mother, who has told him that Its the survival of the fittest throughout his whole feeling. capital of Minn esota Fry is not peer of Lewis, but Lewis given his trait of staying in the minimize emphasizes with him surprisingly much.The ability to emphasize so much with capital of Minnesota causes Lewis to go against his good sense that tells him to mind his own matters, so it mustiness have struck a nerve. world able to identify with capital of Minnesota so well means he has experienced nighthing akin to capital of Minnesotas inflections, which the teensy-weensy portion of his past under product lines Dont be such a baby. boys will be boys. Its human nature. (page 10, line 69). He sees himself in capital of Minnesota Fry, and wherefore wants to suffice because he had no help to claim himself.Lewis profession is not give tongue to in the text, but it implicitly indicates that he is a teacher. For instance, the Headmaster catches him after sieve The next solar day, Harris (Headmaster) came and found him after class. (page 10, line 79). Moreover, capital of Minnesota Fry is a st udent and when Lewis comes home, he has new information roughly Paul Fry to tell his girlfriend, Anna he cherished to tell her (Anna) about Paul Fry. Later, shed sigh when he came in from work, Whats happened instantly? shed ask (page 11, lines 98-102).The vamoose and the whole fortuity lie to the past, though. The perfectly story is about Lewis reflecting on the past, which is wherefore flashbacks occur in the middle of the storyline. In the present, Lewis has no connection to the involved lot of the event. He has quitted teaching after Pauls death on Lewiss survive day, after suggesting he should take some time off. It was the day before Paul Fry was found. (page 11, lines 120-122) and even though he has an old letter from Anna, he has no contact to her Theres a letter for you, his mother shouts. Hes been there a month now, andhas had no mobilise calls, certainly no letters, no energy at all from Anna. (page 8, lines 1821-22) Lewis puts it to his face. He cant find t he sense of smell of her in the words (page 9, line 40). The letter is definitely from Anna and has lost its scent, which implies that it has had one, but has now faded with time, which means it is old. The remorse of Pauls death is so unfaltering that it causes him to dream of his dive into the beach.This indicates it was the same day Paul died, and more so does the event that the boys had never been all the way to Lewis postal service at the beach. The boys went out to beat up Lewis, because as Lewis tells us, he observed Paul being beat up and qualification no sound hence, the death of Paul and they wanted to shut up Lewis. The use of flashbacks throughout the plot keeps the reader at suspense. Lead on by a in media res start, Trezza Azzopardi keeps building up the suspense. The flashbacks are never out of linguistic context they always occur at a setting relevant to it.As a essential follow-up on the flashbacks, Azzopardis short story ends with change in the main charact ers person. That is why Lewis throws out the pebbles, because for each pebble he has felt his life was difficult. Paul Frys incident has haunted him for long enough and he now wants to move on. After he throws away the pebbles, the waves of the beach does not concern him anymore and he can last listen to the humming earth, which indicates the change. A change long awaited caused by precisely one devastating mistake.