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TfL's Renegades are sitting comfortably and they have begun...
We eased into the Challenge with well-known author Ian Rankin. As far as our tutor is concerned, you can't go wrong with the man who penned Rebus.
"An Afternoon" was taken from the archives of last year's 'Story'. The campaign aimed at celebrating the short story. An Afternoon's main character, Rab, is a policeman and we join him during the policing of a football match.
Our resident, former semi-pro footballer Mookthar explains the jargon of the beautiful game to the football novices amongst us.
We're very taken with the use of similes and metaphors. A couple of us have our sights on GCSE English in the future and analysing the use of such devices proves useful and interesting. Although it would be difficult to shoehorn them into a casual conversation, we'll be more equipped to work out further examples in other fiction books we WILL read!
Madina was impressed by Rankin's ability to pull the reader in very quickly and enjoyed the fact the story was told from a policemen's point of view.
The story was quite significant for Alan as it was the very first time he had read a story in English during his 27 years in the UK. Alan found out how valuable "context" can be.
Although confused at first by some words in isolation, he found he was able to make sense of the meaning upon reading the entire sentence.
All in all, it was very satisfying to complete the first story of the Challenge.
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