He criticizes the children at his new school and says: "All these thirty bottle green children doing their verbs in their stuffy Nordic noses", this shows that he does not feel at home. easy. and does not consider himself one of them. Frankie says that "the kids here are retarded", implying that he thinks they are much less intelligent than him and that he thinks very highly of himself. This shows us, as readers, that Frankie is not trying to fit in and settle into his new situation, but is being intentionally difficult, also saying in his letter to his old teacher "P.S. Please don’t delete me from the registration document.” We can relate this to the fact that he does not accept the situation and denies what is happening. The reader at this point feels like Frankie is making his situation worse and that he is responsible for being unhappy because he is making no effort to change that, not even bothering to buy a school uniform to begin with. accept his situation. . We see this as a juvenile way of approaching his problem and we can see that in order to accept it he must