Mrs Polkinghorne Character Analysis

Mrs Polkinghorne was the intriguing woman from social services that comes to my house every week. She is lean and strong, and her skin looks rough and hard. Her eyes are glassy and small, they don’t show much emotion. She drives a large blue wagonette that rattles like pots in the wind. You never quite know what to expect when Mrs Polkinghorne visits. She is a lonely old woman, she lives alone in her prehistoric cottage with only her two cats. She is never angry but doesn’t show many signs of happiness either. She never laughs but I have also never seen her cry. She reminds me of God. Slow to anger and kind. She is almost like God trapped in a human body, I am not sure why I get this impression though.

She makes my mum happy which is the best thing about her. Mum always cleans up the place for Mrs Polkinghorne and wears her best clothes, which to be honest, are not very flattering. She gets out of our creaking cupboards, her cracked china cups and sets them on a tray in
I don’t know why she would want to spend time with paupers like Mum and I but she always comes. I can hear her rattling wagonette coming from a kilometer away. Sometimes I think it will just collapse, the way it leans and shakes.

I know I am just a child, so sometimes it’s hard for me to understand things, but Mrs Polkinghorne never looks down at me, she says that I have a bright future ahead of me. I think it’s just because I am really good at maths. I don’t have many friends because I hardly ever go to school. I can’t get there most of the time because we don’t have a car. But sometimes Mrs Polkinghorne takes me. I really like school though. It’s the only thing I am good at.

When I am older and I have finished school I want to go to university and be like Mrs Polkinghorne. I want to help people like she does. I want to be able to change people’s lives, just like she has changed my life and my Mums. She is my