“Examine the presentations of Keith Hayward in chapters 1-4. How important is he to the early stages of the novel, Spies?”
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"Examine the presentations of Keith Hayward in chapters 1-4. How important is he to the early stages of the novel?" It would be easy to accept that Keith's personality dominates the first four chapters. He is established by Stephen as a hero and also as a personification of the perfect family. Keith's over active imagination creates different worlds. In order to understand the presentation of Keith in the first four chapters, I have divided this piece of work into three areas; firstly where Keith is seen as a hero, secondly Keith's over active imagination and finally Keith as a representative of the perfect family. Frayn seeks to establish Keith as a hero by demonstrating that he is essentially perfect. On page 11, paragraph 2, Frayn explains that the boys have belts which are colour-coded for ease of reference, "yellow and black are the colours of the right school......green and black are the...


