Robert Westall - 'The Scarecrows' We are unable to sympathize with Simon's point of view because he fails to see the points of others.

I disagree with this statement to a certain extent in that, Simon, a young man in his late teens should be enjoying his life by going out to parties and seeing his friends, but instead of that he has been living a quite cheerless and unhappy life because his father, Derek died a few years ago. Now because Simon does not have a stable life it would seem to the reader that he would want …

…get Simon to accept his presence. This may also suggest to the reader that not only did he rip up the drawing, it may suggest he wants to rip up Debbie's and Joe's relationship. My conclusion to this essay is the following. Although Simon has been through a dreadful event he must pick himself up and try to see what other people want and not just him, i.e. his mum wanting to marry Joe.