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A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene
In A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene we have the theme of frustration, perception,
social opinion, fear, acceptance, love and coming of age
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Jerome is fully aware that others have and will laugh at how his father died
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This may be important as Jerome may not only be frustrated at how others
have reacted when told about his father’s death but he may also be afraid to tell the real
story of how his father died due to fear of feeling embarrassed
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This
may be important as Jerome’s hesitancy when it comes to the truth about his father’s death
suggests that Jerome himself is not comfortable or accepting of how his father died
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Jerome’s perception of his father is interesting as it is clear to the reader that Jerome idolized
his father and if anything he has put his father on a pedestal
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For Jerome his father was something more important
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As to why Jerome would need to escape into a world in whereby he distorted the
image of his father is difficult to say
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Death can be
traumatic at any age but for Jerome to lose his mother so young could be devastating and as
such Jerome may have created an alternative world around himself when it came to his
father in order to alleviate the pain that he felt over his mother’s death and which he was too
young to handle
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This alone would be enough for a young boy to be sensitive to other people’s
opinions
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The fact that Jerome is so worried about Sally’s reaction to how is father died is also
interesting as Jerome fears that like others Sally will laugh at the absurdity of how his father
died
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Something that would not
have been the case when it came to others in Jerome’s life particularly those in school who
nicknamed Jerome ‘Pig
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This may be important as apart from his Aunt and his father Jerome
has not had anybody else in his life who has been supportive of him
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To her it is ‘horrible’
how Jerome’s father has died
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Which may leave some readers to suggest that Jerome is coming of age
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It is as though Sally is the pathway to a new chapter in Jerome’s life
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Jerome sees babies in Sally’s
eyes
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There is also possibly a realisation within Jerome that not everybody is
going to laugh at the story of his father’s death
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If
anything Sally has managed to remove any fear that Jerome has when it comes to telling
others about his father’s death
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Through Sally’s love Jerome has managed to move on from the opinions of
others and the fears that may have crippled him when it came to the issue of his father’s
death
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Which leaves the reader suspecting that Jerome will be happy for the first time since his
father died