English 2033E Study Guide - Fatt Father, Strange Bird, Highwayman
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One of the most famous and horrific prisons. Safe from the rain and can see the stars. Father figures strange old figure paternal or something with smith too. He offers a degree of security, safety and fatherly advice to smith. Smith"s lowest point he has been betrayed. Feels powerless in the face of the false accusations of mr. Billing and he has no power and no agency to respond in a way that anyone will believe. Hopelessness emphasizes the hopelessness of smith"s class and yet there is possible agency. This old man has a certain degree of power. Some of the aid that the man offers. Ability to mask his intentions makes him persuasive throughout the novel and smith needs those father figures to help him. Smith looking old and tired and bitter, but just a child nevertheless. Smith"s father figures have to depend on him even more than he needs to depend on them.