'detective' novel to characters whose motivations are believable?"

Use two characters to illustrate your argument.

Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene, is a book based in 1930's underworld Brighton. The novel is based on the tale of Pinky, a teenage gangster, and his conflict against an amateur detective, Ida, who is intent on bringing Pinky to justice. In many ways Brighton Rock can be classed as a detective novel as it contains certain elements of this particular style of writing. Features characteristically used in such novels include thriller elements, violence and rapidly paced action, all of which are present in Brighton Rock. In a detective novel, the crime which is committed is apparently 'perfect'. The murder of Hale in the book is so cleverly done that the police put it down as an accidental death. There is also usually an amateur detective, in this case Ida, and the detective's side-kick, Phil Corkery. To conclude the story, the characters come together in a 'denoument' -

Pinky is jealous of the respect Colleoni receives from his mob, the money Colleoni has and the fact that Colleoni patronises Pinky by talking to him as a father would - offering advice and gentle warnings not to mess around with him and his mob because Pinky is still a child. Pinky must also feel intimidated by the image Colleoni portrays of the typical rich, Italian gangster type.

another typical feature of a detective novel. In this way Brighton Rock can be classified as a detective piece of writing. In the book, however, are the characters created so that they become believable individuals in their own right, or do they simply remain as stereotypical functions, merely existing for the sole purpose of taking part in a plot.

This initial description gives a lot of information about Pinky's character straight away. The 'smooth skin' and 'faintest down' give an indication of how young and child-like Pinky is, almost giving him an air of innocence. The 'grey eyes', however, show that Pinky is not just a young man, but that the other side of his charac

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