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Chapter one from the second part starts again with the rhetorical question: What s it going to be then,

eh?. The repetition allows us to unveil a few things about his narrative techniques in which the novel was built. We receive more information about the underground teenagers in the 50s and 60s by foregrounding in this way the expressions, rhetorical questions and habits most common for them are emphasised.

In the second part of the novel, the number that represented who was Alex then and that sound full of deception owwwwww and the address where the jail was, are constantly introduced to foreground a specific status quo. These repetitions shows us how was the situation in there and also how it made him felt.

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