Tale 4 Research

For homework mr Worden asked us to look at either tales one, two, three or found in groups of five or six, he asked us to focus on developing an understanding of the characters and more specifiacally find or draw images of the characters and what we imagine them to be like.

I looked at tale four which is essentially looking at the how people in the east end treat old people, and how we assume old people are treated.

the tale is told in the perspective of a teeneager whos gender is never clarrified but i decided it was a girl, she is told by her father to buy him a 20 pack of regals and on her way sees an old lady struggling to cross the road. She helps this lady with her shopping and at the end is sitting with a packet of crisps the lady bought her looking at the rain.

The actual language used in the tale is very visually descriptive; the writer talks about the 'swollen drops explode on to the pavement and crash off the walls of the estate'. 

and then when the girl sees her 'Traffic thurdering past, rain pummelling down'

 'and bouncing off her head, grey hair matted with the wet'

'i offer the brolly, try to keep the rain off the pensioners trolley'

As far as the old woman i would see her character as being frustrated, feeling 100%  mentally able but not having the abilty to command her body to do everyday tasks, in staging this i would try to convey the suprise the woman felt at being helped by the teenager as being suprised by the good in people seems to be a recurring theme in the play.