‘The Best Boots in the World’, written by Brian Caswell, is a short story about a young boy named Mikey and his ‘Lucky’ boots. Throughout the story the author used a variety of techniques including foreshadowing, stereotypes, and characterisation to develop the characters into believable beings. These techniques help to engage the audience in the story.
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In the story ‘The Best Boots in the World’ the author uses a lot of techniques including stereotypical characters, imagery and themes and messages.
Stereotypical characters.
This refers to the way the people act and look in the story. Brian Caswell uses this in the story by using words to make us think that Mikey is the ‘Good Teenager’, the youth is the ‘Bad’ teenager