tom brennnan
The issue of drink driving is explored extensively in the novel.
Write a reflective essay on how themes of choice and responsibility are foregrounded in Daniel’s journey in the novel.
Your essay should be 600 words in length with:
• an introduction
• 3 body paragraphs
• and a conclusion
The story of Tom Brenan
J.C. Burke
For the main character of the book Tom Brennan, life is about mates, rugby and family. Until a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom is a survivor but he needs a ticket out of the past just as much as Daniel. Until a night of drunken celebration changes his life forever. In a drunken rage, Tom’s older brother Daniel causes a car accident in which their cousin, Fin, suffers irreversible spinal injuries and two friends are killed. Toms world explodes as his brother Daniel is sent to jail and the Brenan’s are forced to leave the small town tom has lived in his whole life. But how can Tom even begin to rebuild his life when his mother won’t get out of bed, his father is struggling to hold the family together and Tom has to play rugby without his beloved team – and without Daniel.
In “The Story Of Tom Brennan” written by J.C Burke in a story about destruction, guilt and shame through the story there are allot of up and downs after the crash the family is not the same and tom knows that it will never be the same the story uses destructive power to add some problems to the story to keep it going the crash causes a couple of problems to everyone not just the family the whole community is effected guilt tom and kylie both feel guilty like they were the cause for the crash shame the family lie in shame they feel like there family is bad and the community don’t help that is why they mover because the whole family is looked down upon by the town of Mumbili. The family is affected by destruction in every way the family has changed after the event it has cause the whole community to change fin who was in
Write a reflective essay on how themes of choice and responsibility are foregrounded in Daniel’s journey in the novel.
Your essay should be 600 words in length with:
• an introduction
• 3 body paragraphs
• and a conclusion
The story of Tom Brenan
J.C. Burke
For the main character of the book Tom Brennan, life is about mates, rugby and family. Until a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom is a survivor but he needs a ticket out of the past just as much as Daniel. Until a night of drunken celebration changes his life forever. In a drunken rage, Tom’s older brother Daniel causes a car accident in which their cousin, Fin, suffers irreversible spinal injuries and two friends are killed. Toms world explodes as his brother Daniel is sent to jail and the Brenan’s are forced to leave the small town tom has lived in his whole life. But how can Tom even begin to rebuild his life when his mother won’t get out of bed, his father is struggling to hold the family together and Tom has to play rugby without his beloved team – and without Daniel.
In “The Story Of Tom Brennan” written by J.C Burke in a story about destruction, guilt and shame through the story there are allot of up and downs after the crash the family is not the same and tom knows that it will never be the same the story uses destructive power to add some problems to the story to keep it going the crash causes a couple of problems to everyone not just the family the whole community is effected guilt tom and kylie both feel guilty like they were the cause for the crash shame the family lie in shame they feel like there family is bad and the community don’t help that is why they mover because the whole family is looked down upon by the town of Mumbili. The family is affected by destruction in every way the family has changed after the event it has cause the whole community to change fin who was in