Stone Cold Written Work

1.
Link:

1)"I'm invisible" pg.1

2)"I started getting really depressed" pg.13

3)"I decided it was time to move on" pg.9

4)"thought of me as a dosser" pg.14

5)"I made loads of mistakes" pg.18

6)"I was thankful at the time" pg.20

7)"I started to feel nervous" pg.21

8)"I didn't care" pg.

9)" I was angry and a bit shaken" pg.31

10)"My anonymity was a comfort" pg.32
Character type: protagonist

Ginger:
1)"Six, Seven months" pg.41
2)"Well, when you are, smoking helps. Dulls the pain" pg.42
3)"Why?"... "We were in somebody's doorway. Wouldn't do for the owner or tenant or whatever to find us here when he came to open up, would it?"pg.44
4)"You don't have to feed me, y'know, just 'cause we shared a doorway. Folks like us, we've got to look after number one. And don't tell anybody else you've got nine quid or you won't have it long." pg.44

5)"Waste of time, mate. Foregone conclusion. They'll say you made yourself homeless 'cause you left your mum's place voluntarily." pg.45

6)"Not a sausage, mate, you can take it from me. I've seen it too many times." pg.45

7)"Nobody cares, see? Nobody gives a toss. That's the first thing you gotta learn. pg.45

8)"Yep. All day, every day. And sometimes I don't make a price for a sandwich." pg.45

9)"I wouldn't wait until it runs out, mate. Like i said, some days you'll make sod-all. I'd start today if I was you." pg.46

10)"Fair enough. Tell you what - you try outside of National Gallery." pg.52

Character type: mentor

Shelter:

1)"If they can only find shelter everything will be fine. Well- get fell in, my lucky lads. I'm reading fro you." pg.2

2)"You're a handsome devil but you're idle, lad." pg.7

3)"They're not going to stop me, though. Oh, no. They abolished National Service, and they've put me where I can't turn garbage into men anymore, but I can clean up the garbage, can't I? They can't stop me doing that, and I will. By golly, I will." pg.12

4)"A cat speaks of warmth, comfort, placid domesticity. A man who keeps a cat can't possibly mean anybody harm, can he?" pg.16

5) "Shelter and Sappho, otherwise known as The Invincibles. All is ready. Recruiting can now commence." pg.17

6) "I'd made up the whole thing up- name and everything. Part of my preparation." pg.23

7)"I slipped up behind him and put him out of his misery" pg.24

8)"Cruel? I don't think so. He's not cold nor hungry now."pg.24

9)"Nobody wanted him, so nobody will miss him, and there's one less dosser to clutter up the place. Who loses?" pg.24

10)"As a soldier, it was a chief function to kill, waste, do in- whatever you want to call it - those among my fellow humans whose activities happened to displease the powers that be in my country." pg.28

Character type: antagonist

2.
Young Link has had so many downsides throughout his life so far in the book "Stone Cold", but despite all the negative parts of Link's life, he was still able to find a way to keep going. The beginning with his new stepfather, Vince, had not gone very well which lead to Link becoming homeless. This was a rough time for Link because he was completely new at homelessness, yet still he kept finding new doorways to sleep all over London. By doing this he eventually found a person he taught it was worth to hang on to for a while, Ginger. Unfortunately, a disaster had happened, Ginger has been murdered by the evil antagonist Shelter while trying to find Link. For months, Link has been searching for him only to find absolutely nothing until he meets a wonderful women called Gail who helps him with discovering more about Ginger's disappearance. These are all the reasons why Link is a growing character throughout the whole book even as his life is spiraling downwards.