These are some of the characters in the story. The story opens up with Martin O'Brien a nineteen year old Catholic boy living in Glasgow, Scotland also he is curious to learn about his grandfather but his mother won't say anything on the subject. He lives with his mother, Mary O'Brien, Mary isn't a main important character in the story so not much is known about her. Martin's Uncle and Mary's brother, Timothy (Tim) just arriving in Glasgow because he has come over to visit them for a short time. Tim is a liar because later on he tells Martin he is a membe

When the writer uses speech, it is in short structured sentences. I think he doesn't use long sentences because they are not interesting to read, you can easily get lost reading them because they lose your attention. Short sentences can get the readers attention and make them read on to find out what happens next and I feel Keith Aitchison has definitely succeed in this. Also in the structure of this story not many long paragraphs are used. I think this is better because there is a lot of speech to make you feel like you are there next to the characters listening to their conversation. Personally I prefer this because I would rather read a conversation than consecutive long paragraphs because they bore me.

To follow this, I think Martin in return gave a sarcastic reply to his Uncle Tim, as if to treat him like an adult and not a child. I think Martin is angry at the comment his Uncle has made, unknown to his Uncle and Martin says a strong powerful "I'm nineteen" to come back.

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Approximate Word count = 999
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)