Raw by Scott Monk Brett has a rebellious attitude and has some negativity towards authority; this is expressed in his attitude towards the police at the beginning of the novel and in the use of the "pigs" dialogue. They capture Brett after a botched robbery and he is taken from Sydney to a juvenile detention center in Mungindi run by Sam and Mary Fraser. Brett Dalton is the individual on whom we see the institution having major effects, it changes his life, his attitudes and his morals. Brett's attitudes towards authority are very clear, the book is written in the 3rd person, but through Brett's point of view it allows us to understand his individual opinions and also allows us to see his change in perspective due to to its institutionalization. "To Brett, Sam was everything he wanted here, the more he tried to change him, the more Brett resisted, Brett wasn't going to follow any rules or become the man's sidekick like any of the other losers, he was happy with who he was and the way he lived. He would beat the system before it beat it.” The irony of this attitude is that it did. as long as Brett keeps it, he will be the loser. The conversations between Brett and the other characters are much more emotionally charged in dialogue form than they would be if Monk had simply described them. !''Do me!'At the beginning of the novel Brett struggles to take responsibility for his actions, we see...... middle of paper ...... the street, and off drugs. This institution is known as YOTS. The objective of the institution is to welcome children who are below the usual standards of society and to raise them with everyone else in order to give them a chance in life. Staff at YOTS and other similar institutions take a “firm but gentle approach to helping children.” This approach is very similar to Sam's on Raw. The article uses dialogue from children who have been in the institution to show us their attitudes towards the program "You leave here with a feeling of great accomplishment" and one of the comments draws a comparison between the police of the crude novel and that of In the article "The police see you and think he is just a street kid", they do not see them as individuals, in the same way that the police treat Brett at the beginning of the novel "Raw".."