... think that young people are innocent and are still learning and so it is written in a children's point of view to make the reader in the perspective of Link or with him throughout the novel. He also indicates "Next morning Vince started slapping me around the head for going off a worrying mum." He uses this sentence to make people look at Vince like he is in the wrong and he should know better. Swindells uses a teenaged boy because if he had used a grown up person he would not have got that much sympathy from the reader. This would make the reader learn from Link's mistakes and the reader was once Links age and might know how it felt for this to happen to them. This quote has been written in Links perspective so the reader would sympathise more with Link afterall there is only one side ...

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