The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner By Alan Sillitoe

Dual Nature of British Society－The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

I. Introduce
I am interested in the British schools, especially public school. The public school does not mean “state school” like Japan. The public school is the school to nurture the human resources to be active in public. It is like a private high school in Japan and costs much money to graduate. The public school in the UK was built for upper-class students. Also, it is a boarding school.
First of all, I was going to learn about the public school. However, I got interested in one school throughout this book. It is “Borstal.” Unlike the public school, boys who committed some sorts of crimes enroll there. As the juvenile training school in the Japan, the
The Author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was written by Alan Sillitoe, a writer in the UK (1928-2010), and published in 1958. It has eight stories－The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Uncle Ernest, Mr. Raynor The School Teacher, The Fishing Boat Picture, Noah’s Ark, On Saturday Afternoon, The Match, The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale, and The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller.
Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928 as working-class. While working in the factory, he wrote the novel from a young age. He became a wireless engineer in the Air Force at the age of 19, but he suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and began to write the novel in earnest during recuperation. In 1958, he became famous by writing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This first novel became best-selling for
In the middle 19th century, children who commit a variety of sins for economic reasons were abundant in the UK. Borstal was not only to accommodate such children, but also to educate to return to society again. There were many prison schools in the UK before Borstal was born. However, it was similar to prison for the adults and just accommodated people who commit sins. At that time in the UK, prison school was thought that it could not prevent the recurrence of crime. To prevent it, it needed to educate children and enrich the human nature. Because of these reasons, long-waited Borstal was born. Children under 16 years old were in Borstal, and most of them did not have parents. In 1854, Borstal had increased to 25 and received a lot of subsidies from the government. In British society which had the fierce difference between rich and poor, Borstal came to be