Good morning
/afternoon Miss Martin and fellow class students. Tim Wintons novel "The
Riders" is a very deatailed 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 the area which Scully
is living in Ireland. Scully meets Peter on the 3rd day of his arrival when
peter was delivering a telegram from jennifer to scully. Peter keneally is a
character whom has commitment to family and has a good working morals which
even scully thinks of, on page 28 "the man cound work?"
Peter has no
children but has a brother whom has been constantly drunk in past few years.
Peter is the first person which scully encounters when he arrived in Ireland
and from then on peter has become 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 up the work enormously.
Readers see peter
keneally as a hardworking ,caring person who doesn't like letting people down and is friendly, he
also reveals scully life to readers by asking him questions.
Jimmy Brereton is
a minor character who fills ingaps for readers regarding irish characters. He
himself if a tryical irish man who drinks and is supstitscious. Jimmy lives in
a mansion and neighbours with scully. The first mention of Jimmy is in a
conversation between scully and peter keneally on page 16, "Jimmy Brereton
down there by the castle says you saw this place and brought it in less time
that it takes to piss.
There is no
direct interactions between jimmy and scully, but jimmy seems to hate scully
and thinks that he is confused and foolish, acknowledging him as a "wooly
young bastard" on page 26.
Jimmy is seen to
be very superstitsious as he dares not go around the castle after dark.
Evidence is on page 26 "No Brereton, man or child, would be there after
dark." It also seems that the castle, quote from page 27, "has made
him an early retirer, a six-pint man at sunset." Jimmy foreshadows the
marriage for scully but he appears to be a chouvist with his comments like on
page 26 "he coud see scully with love in his eyes and was going to be
doomed by it" and also, "snared by a woman".
Although these
characters are minor ones, they still play an important role to help readers
understand what is going on with the protagonist's background, personality and
thought and feelings.
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