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Scott Monk’s narrative text appropriately addresses the concept of the institution and personal experience.

“While an institution might encourage individuals to change through enforcing rules and regulations, it is the individual who ultimately holds the power to change.”

Monk uses various characters to symbolise the range of attitudes and responses adopted by young people of today and the different stages they go through to transform these attitudes.

The character of Brett Dalton symbolises the common attitudes and behaviours of teenagers in particular, that have trouble co-operating with other people and find it hard to feel any real sense of self worth and feel the need to prove themselves to others.

Monk uses Brett to demonstrate the extent of the challenge some have to reach to reconstruct their lives with determination, and find the right spot between independence and conforming to society, a challenge that is only beginning to be met at the end of the book.

Brett’s’ biggest challenge by far is to change his natural response to difficult situations. His first instinct that he has learnt to do over the past 16 years is to run away from his problems and c

Brett represents those individuals who struggle to assert themselves through confrontation, but only succeed in confirming society’s stereotype of them. Brett’s acts of theft and his failed attempt to escape from The Farm later in the book show his own personal struggle to challenge acceptable behaviour but at the same time, show his weakness of feeling the need to act like a typical juvenile delinquent.

Each character is affected differently by the pressure to comply with The Farm’s institutional structures. Josh has stayed on with Sam on The Farm, due to his gained recognition of what he can achieve with the skills he is learning there. It is compliance, but it is more positive, considering Josh’s satisfaction with what he has learned from Sam.

onsequences of his actions. In the prologue, the book begins with the line “Busted, Brett panicked.” This reaction continually occurs all throughout the novel, a tendency Brett has a lot of trouble fighting against, and as the saying goes “old habits die hard”. Among the first thoughts he has when arriving at the farm is ways to escape: “He was interested in what valuables were stashed round this place – like a getaway car.” (Page 23), “There was nothing…stopping him from passing through it. He could easily make a run for it.” (Pa

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