Indledning
The novel Shuggie Bain, written in 2020 by Douglas Stuart, follows the 11-year-old Hugh “Shuggie” Bain as he grows up in Glasgow with his mother Agnes.
This analytical essay will summarize the key parts of the excerpt from chapter twenty-four, before analysing the theme, characters and setting of the novel.
It will be shown how the novel deals with a serious theme of alcoholism, and children who are neglected and forced to grow up at a young age.
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Uddrag
When Shuggie is at the office to collect her child support, the lady there refuses to give it to him, and questions why he isn’t at school, and why his mother doesn’t pick it up herself.
People in the queue are getting impatient, and she finally stamps his papers and gives him their money, but warns him that he should attend school to not end up in a benefit queue for the rest of his life.
Some of the themes of the novel are alcoholism, addiction, love, loneliness, childhood and growing up too soon.
We see the alcoholism of Agnes very clearly through the descriptions of her actions and the dialogues of the novel.
“It always ended up the same; she returned the messages that she could and bought what she really needed first, drink.” (l.30-31)
In this passage and many others, we see how Agnes is addicted to alcohol, and how her alcoholism has taken over her life to the extent that she neglects her children to buy drinks.
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