The Blooding :: essays papers

The BloodingAs centeral as the environmentalist issue is to the&lsquo blooding&rsquois more about a boys painful search for identity.Col&rsquos search for his own identity is a bigger issue it the bloodingas he is a genuinely confused teenage boy, who is torn between the communityof Cornwall and the greenies.Col was brought up being very protected by his mother. As Col was broughtup his mother do sure he had the best of everything. She would knit himall his clothes, like the city children wore and this made him anoutsider as the other children in Cornwall would tease him for hisclothing, his mother, as she is Irish and a Catholic who goes to church.Col came from a family which was normal for the community of Cornwall.His father worked as a tree logger and in the mill, as his father had andhis father had and so on. Col had been horn in hope that he would followhis family hoof it steps and keep the tradition in the family going, byworking in the mill.Col lead a double life - with th e gang and the forest. Col would go intothe forest and would stay in a special which was called The Palace forhours. His grandfather has shown him this special place in the forest.This Palace was the originally place of the settlement, that Col&rsquos ample grand father had been at until a land slide had landed on his greatgrandfather. The settlement people them moved on, to a new place, whichis Cornwall. Which he had visited nearly every day. This also made Col anoutsider to the rest of the kids in Cornwall.The thing that transformed Col from an outsider was when he had a interlockingwith Scott (who was the best fighter), and he won the fight. A coppercalled Golden Gloves, who is the best fighter in Cornwall then asked Colif he wanted him to train him. by and by the fight Col was accepted by the other boys and was no longer anoutsider but a friend on the other kids in Cornwall. past the greenies arrived to Cornwall, challenging the mills and thelogging of the forest. Col has mixed emotions towards this issue.&lsquoAnyway I thought the old was right about the greenies, but I secretly concur with the greenies about the trees&rsquo. (p.7) This quote showshow Col is confused about what he thinks and wants to think what otherpeople do, but he know that he thinks differently. Col does not want to