Stone Cold by Robert Swindells Stone Cold is an absorbing novel by Robert Swindells which follows ‘Link’‚ a sixteen year old boy from Bradford‚ England. The novel tells you about his life over the past two years‚ how he leaves his violent home and lives on the street‚ first in Bradford and then in London‚ where the story starts to take shape. The novel also follows ‘Shelter’‚ an ex-military man who served for twenty nine years‚ discharged on medical grounds. In my essay‚ I will aim to analyse
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Samantha Verayo The novel Stone Cold is a very suspenseful and thrilling book that was written by Robert Swindells. Swindells used characterisation and setting to modify the plot of the story and develop several themes‚ such as: custody‚ love‚ family issues and relationships‚ treachery‚ atrocity and subsistence. Swindells developed both Link as the main protagonist and Shelter as the main antagonist. Swindells made both major characters to be capable of change and undergo change consequences
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STONE COLD is a novel aimed at young adults‚ and was written by Robert Swindells. The book’s basic plot revolves around the life of 16 year-old ‘Link‚’ born in Bradford in 1977. Link’s real name is not specified at any point throughout the course of the book. The book begins with Link’s life in Bradford‚ with his mother’s new lover Vince moving in to the household (Link’s father had disappeared) and taking a firm‚ cruel stance towards Link. The tension in the home begins to make the relationship
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Stone Cold Stone Cold. ‘By golly’ it was a good book. A brilliant book by a brilliant author. Robert Swindwells tells the tale of a young boy living out on the street. With twists and turns and heart-stopping adventure‚ Swindwells shows once again his amazing talent to write. It’ll keep you on the edge of your seat definitely‚ but why? Why does it keep you reading? Well in this essay I’ll be analysing Swindwells’ novel a little more closely and giving you the answer. Stone Cold’s structure
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Robert Swindells presents the character of Shelter in many different ways in the novel ‘Stone Cold’. Swindells gives Shelter-a psychopathic‚ ex-military‚ mass murderer-a deadly personality that’s extremely terrifying but also curiously intriguing at the same time. In Stone Cold‚ the Daily Routine Orders is where we get special glimpses of events through Shelter’s eyes. Shelter speaks and thinks in a peculiar way- like a well educated‚ normal person. But what he says throughout the book shows the
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Stone cold is a book written by Robert Swindells‚ the plot of the story is set on two people‚ one who is homeless (Link) and one who kills because he believes that the homeless ruin the place (Shelter). Robert Swindells is clever at writing the story‚ as he switches between the two characters link and shelter‚ the characters in the story are all different and lead very different lives‚ Shelter who used to be in the army left after problems‚ now he believes that he is still in the army and is on
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“Stone Cold” By Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline. The play “Stone Cold” is written by Joe Standerline and is based on the novel by Robert Swindells. The plot has two main characters‚ Link and Shelter‚ who are very different people. Link is a sixteen year old boy who now lives on the streets because he felt neglected at home. Shelter‚ in the other hand is completely different for Link. He comes across as an affectionate man taking in the people off the street but then his personality
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How does Robert Swindells build sympathy for the homeless in ‘Stone Cold?’ What we are doing We are writing a piece of work to finish our work on ‘Stone Cold’ This outline is designed to help you Think P>E>C and try to use quotes The sentences in italics are sentence starters for you to use if you want Paragraph One This should tell the reader the name of the novel and the author and include a very quick summary of the novel. ‘Stone Cold was written by…. The story is told by a character
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Link becomes homeless after a fight with his mother’s boyfriend Vince. Thinking he is no longer safe in Bradford‚ he goes to London. He looks for a job but no one will take him on as he has no experience and has only five GCSEs. Now Link cannot get a job since he has no address and he cannot get an address since he has no job. Link is very afraid alone on the streets‚ but after a while he meets Ginger who is also homeless. Ginger teaches Link how to survive on the street and how to beg. Meanwhile
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A character study of Shelter from Stone cold. Show how our view of the character changes throughout the novel. Shelter is one of the two first-person narrators in Robert Swindell’s Stone cold. In the novel Swindell’s follows the runaway teenager‚ Link‚ from his home in Bradford to the mean streets of London where his path crosses that of Shelter‚ an ex-soldier who creates his own army while also cleaning up the streets of the homeless people he despises. In this essay I will show how the character
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