Spies Belonging

Statement of Intention: ‘Our sense of reality is never the same as others’ suggests the nature of developed psychological mindsets that people build through the course of life, and the factors that influence this mindset to alter one persons perception of reality. This expository essay aims to inform and explain, using three different points of evidence that link back to the contending argument. The intended audience are Students and Adults that are assumed to be educated that would be reading a newspaper or magazine exert, assuming that the audience would have little prior knowledge to the related topic. The language used in the essay aims for a level of sophistication that the reader would expect. The essay draws on Michael Frayns ‘Spies’
In the novel where a character named Keith who had always seemed to adopt a ‘Domineering’ persona against ‘Stephen’ who was a vulnerable young child with little social interest at school. Keith may have adopted this persona from his father who was ignorant of his son and only had seemed to communicate with him when he needed something, or he felt he needed to because Keith had done something wrong. Supporting the concept that values and mentality are often adopted in a persons upbringing. An incident where Stephen had broken Keith's trust had caused Keith to forcibly take physical action on Stephen, though throughout the book it is only narrated through one characters perspective, Stephens. Stephen believes that Keith is enraged because he thinks he has done something wrong, when the knife is being held to Stephens neck he thinks to himself why Keith's mother wears a scarf, this suggestion immediately prompts us to look at Keith's perspective of the situation and encourages us to consider what may be happening in Keith's life, could there be some motive behind his violence? Frayns spies is a credible portrayal of how how we can never really know somebody, and that out perception is always skewed in certain