Tutorial on Pete Keneally & Jimmy Brereton in "The Riders" by Tim Wintons

Good morning /afternoon Miss Martin and fellow class students. Tim Wintons novel "The Riders" is a very deatailed novel about being a father and being a husband. The protangonist, Mr fred scully, more commonly known as Scully encounter and overcomes his main dissapointment of losing his beloved wife, Jennifer. Jennifer runs away from this family leaving scully and his daughter, billy, behind together. One of the techniques which made this novel so detailed and sucessful …

…six-pint man at sunset." Jimmy foreshadows the marriage for scully but he appears to be a chouvist with his comments like on page 26 "he coud see scully with love in his eyes and was going to be doomed by it" and also, "snared by a woman". Although these characters are minor ones, they still play an important role to help readers understand what is going on with the protagonist's background, personality and thought and feelings.