Stone Cold tells the saddening yet enlivening story of a 16 year male. He has experienced some gruesome experiences. This sixteen year old, born into a reasonably rough environment, goes by the name of Link. Link portrays many characteristics throughout Robert Swindells well written novel. These all I could relate to.
Link, born 20th March 1977 in Bradford, knew where he sat in society from the beginning. I also knew where he sat. This certainty was clear from the first few sentences when Link stated “You can call me Link. It’s not my real name, but it’s what I say when anybody asks which isn’t often”. This shows that Link doesn’t feel accepted by the people around him. He feels like a shadow lurking in the corner. Following the first page,
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Link becomes saddened. This is because at age 14, his father abandons his family for a receptionist. Following this dramatic incident, Links mother acquired a new partner. Link nicknamed him ‘Old Vince’. Due to the tension between him and Vincent, Link decided for a better life and one of more freedom. When asked what he did, he replied “It’s called making yourself homeless”. He did this because he knew that if he has stayed, his mental health would deteriorate. He had already endured the situation for a lot longer than was necessary. He was determine to change his own life and hoped for a better one. This action proves that Link is brave, determined and likes to be in control of his own life. I can relate to him in this sense because he wanted to change his own life. This is because he was sick of his current situation. Whenever I am troubled, escaping that is always my biggest wish. Because of this, I can entirely understand why Link made the brave choice to leave his home. He did it in hope for a better world beyond. If I couldn’t relate to Link from Stone Cold, I may not have taken the time to read the novel.
I truly mean this because he added so much excitement, sadness, willingness and drama to the novel. I could relate to heaps of these feelings. After reading the novel for 3 days, I began to feel like his difficulties were mine. Also like his problems were mine and his situation was mine too. I began to feel quite emotionally attached to Link. This is because I began to feel whenever he experienced something tough, I was right there beside him. I was sensing everything he was. For example, when he met his new friend Gail, he was pleased. He showed this by saying “It was magic being with Gail. Like I said, I seemed to stop noticing the cold, and tapping became a sort of game for us”. Due to all the rough patches Link had been through before this moment, I felt like a huge burden was granted off my shoulders. This was when he told of what a magnificent time he was having. This burden was also lifted of his shoulders. Although, I was mainly experiencing bad alongside Link, I have never had such a bond and relatable time with any book character before. This meant I found it satisfactory and it opened up another whole level of my brain that I never knew existed. Midway through the novel, Link said “It’s not my name, but it’s what I say when anybody asks, which isn’t often”. it made feel accepted and worth as I am not the only one who feels frequently invisible. It was important that
Link and I shared this feeling as it made me more emotionally engrossed in the novel. It also made me realise that his problems are vastly worse than mine. This made me rethink sadness and develop my understanding of gratefulness. This is because people like Link have it a lot worse. This made me feel grateful for the things I obtain. I strongly believe that the dialogue Robert Swindells has used, made a huge difference to the relatability of Link. Since he used words such as “Jeez”, “Y-yes?” and “bro”, I found Link easier to relate to and become attached to. The words I have stated are commonly used by youth worldwide which made Link appear to me like one of us. This increased the strength of our bond. This is because it made me feel as though we did have similarities in our way of speech. It was essential that Robert Swindells incorporated these words into Stone Cold. If had used words such as intriguing or phenomenal, I wouldn’t have been able to relate to Link as strongly. This is since these are not the type of words used by many people of my generation. Link is a brave, intelligent and a strong 16 year old boy whose life got off to an interesting start. I was able to relate to him because I have experienced some of the same things as him on a minor scale. Link and I share many key qualities and we developed a strong relationship. Because of this bond, I became completely engrossed in Stone Cold. This developed and I was able to open my brain up to another level and find some things out about myself I never knew. Link is a relatable character full of qualities, adventure and life.
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
The mood in this book is humorous so when Ethan makes bad decisions like seeing Link, because it’s obvious that he shouldn’t do it and he does makes the reader want him to mess up so the book becomes more interesting and he does just that this is also why it’s such a good book because he makes these decisions and it leads to all sorts of things good and
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