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The Riders: Summary And Analysis - Online Term Paper

The Riders: Summary And Analysis

Good morning /afternoon Miss Martin and fellow class students. Tim Wintons
novel “The Riders” is a very detailed novel about being a father and being
a husband. The protangonist, Mr fred scully, more commonly known as Scully
encounter and overcomes his main dissapointment of losing his beloved wife,
Jennifer. Jennifer runs away from this family leaving scully and his
daughter, billy, behind together.

One of the techniques which made this novel so detailed and sucessful is
the interacting between scully and other characters. This talk will be
concentrated on the minor characters Peter Keneally and Jimmy Bererton.

Peter Keneally, more known as Pete-the Post is the local postman around ...

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a good friend of
scully, bringing him his telegrams, having a social chat and helping
scully with his home. (34).

Since the first greeting between peter and scully, peter has schown great
enthusiasm to help scully recondition his home on page 24. This even meant
putting off his daily post. “Haven't you got the post to do? Diversity, Mr
Sculy thats my motto.”

Peter Keneally is one of the characters which help reveal scully, his
family and general detail of his wife to the readers. For example on page
16, we see the nationality of scully revealed. “Youre the Australian then.”
and on page 29, the name of scully's wife, jennifer, is mentioned to the
readers “What was her name again? your wife?”

Scully is very fond of Peter as on page 35 and on page 47 scully describes
him as “he liked him better than any man he could remember.” and “that he
was a good bloke” Peter always gave scully a good influence, on page 34, “
pete gave him company most afternoons, made him laugh and sped ...

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PAPER DETAILS

Added: 7/20/2007 12:15:36 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 639
Pages: 3

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