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How does R.Gerallt Jones make us feel sorry for Johnny in "The Letter"?  

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Alice Sancier 14th February 2002 Anglo/Welsh prose: The Letter How does R.Gerallt Jones make us feel sorry for Johnny in "The Letter"? "The Letter" is a short Anglo/Welsh prose written by R.Gerallt Jones, era 1950's. The story is set on a train travelling to the protagonist's, Johnny, first experience of boarding school, and the emotions and changes he has to deal with whilst growing up and leaving home. Johnny is a young, naive Welsh boy, bought up in a small Welsh town, Pwllheli. He is sent by his mother to an English boarding school, where his older brother has already boarded. On the train journey, he is mocked and excluded by English, more experienced schoolboys. The atmosphere is one of child like pathos and harsh 'growing up'. The reader establishes, whilst reading "The Letter", an image of Johnny being young and vulnerable. This is created by, in pages 14, 15 and 16, Johnny reading the young boys'...

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