Summary Of Kiss And Tell By John Sam Jones

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The novel by John Sam Jones titled “Kiss & Tell” means that you should share your personal sexual thoughts with another person. The genre is a short story and the author John is from Wales.
In this analytic essay I will first make a short summarize about the novel, and then go into a deep characterisation about the protagonist, and subordinate characters. And last I will reflect on the theme.

The novel is about a young boy named Seimon aged 14. Seimon is going through the struggle of puberty and learning about yourself physical both also mentally. This pupil is our protagonist and goes to a secondary school in North Wales, which is also where our story takes place. Seimon seems to be very insecure about him self and with the result of him having a major lack of friends. Seimon becomes aware throughout the story that he is a homosexual, and with that he is having sexual thoughts and daydreams about his teacher Dylan Roberts who is also
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Roberts himself because what was meant as a friendly smile, trigged Seimon’s feelings and that made him suddenly feeling liked and cared for which excites him. A feeling that he made him feel special and warm inside. “Then, in one of his early reveries, the teacher smiled at him. It was as if Seimon was the only other person in the classroom and Mr. Roberts was only interested in him. The smile encouraged Seimon. […] Seimon felt special”
Seimon had this picture of how a homosexual person was like and looked therefor with Dylan coming out of the closet made him wonder if they were so different at all. “Seimon though, was surprised… at first any way” He could not image Dylan being gay because “Graham Norton and Julian Clary on the television, they seemed so girly. He was taken aback when Mr. Roberts came out because his teacher was so normal.” Seimon view on homosexuals changed forever.

Mr. Roberts one of the most major subordinate characters, Seimon’s secret fictional

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