Rhony Frankie Sparknotes

Frankly Frankie is a drama text by Rony Robinson, with Frankie, a 14 year old boy, as the main character. Frankie has a lot of problems going on throughout the book, firstly he is moving from his home in London to Yorkshire away from all his friends. On top of this his mother and father are separating and his father is staying in London with “The Girlfriend”. Frankie changes a lot throughout the book as at first he is pessimistic and blames his mother for the situation but further through the book starts to see things through a new perspective and tries to accept the situation and that no one is to blame. He starts to behave at school and makes some friends while being much nicer to his mother and by the end of the book the reader can clearly

He criticizes the kids at his new school, and says “All these thirty bottle-green kids doing their verbs down their blocked northern noses” this shows that he doesn’t feel as if he fits in and doesn’t consider himself to be one of them. Frankie says “the kids here are backwards” implying that he thinks they are a lot less intelligent than he is, and he thinks quite highly of himself. This shows us as the readers that Frankie is not attempting to fit in and settle into his new situation but instead being purposely difficult, also saying in his letter to his old teacher “P.S. Please do not erase me from the registration document”. We can relate this to the fact that he is not accepting of the situation and is in denial of what is happening. The reader at this point feels as if Frankie is making it worse for himself and that he is to blame for himself being miserable because he is making no effort to change that not even bothering to buy a school uniform in order to start to 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 needs to