This is an essay about the novel, Theories of Relativity, by Barbara Haworth-Attard, where the main protagonist, sixteen year old Dylan, is kicked out of his home and has to live on the streets where he meets several “interesting” characters such as Jenna, the naive runaway, and Amber, the belligerent prostitute. Dylan throughout the novel fights against the black hole that is the dark world of homelessness which commonly includes drugs, alcohol, and mental issues, along the way coming up with theories as to why things are the way they are, and how as a coping mechanism. Many of our characters (such as Dylan, Amber and Jenna) if taken from just a vague, stereotypical title of why they ran away, you don’t truly understand more as to why and therefore, judge them for their stereotypical title. First assumptions of Dylan, Amber and Jenna were by just the title of why that I gave them were most likely ones such as “Dylan must have not listened to his parents much.” “Jenna probably did it for a guy.” “Amber probably is a sex addict.”
Most of them, are false. They can be true in certain, ironic …show more content…
The results of these causes are often them being sucked into the black hole that is the streets, but in the case of someone such as Ainsley, that “clawed her way out” you can get loose, I strongly speculate that Dylan and Amber are two characters that will get loose, but with Jenna on the other hand, I speculate that she’ll never break free, maybe with pregnancy, but that is extremely unlikely. The help offered to Dylan will be a large reason he's going to get free, because if Glen wasn’t going to give him a job, and if Ainsley wasn’t offering everything she did, he wouldn’t think he could get out. Without them telling him that he can he won’t, because he is such a pessimistic person. Evidence that he might find his way out is on the last chapter where he