- The two
writers are boys, Laurie Lee and Austin Clarke.
- The first
day of school of Laurie was at the Village School in England, and the first day
of Austin was at the Combermere School in Barbados.
- The Village school is a primary school, the students remain there until they were fourteen years old, and then they were presented to any working field or a factory; instead of the Combermere School that is a second grade school, In which if you do it well, you would turn into a civil servant, and if you didn’t do well, you could be a sanitary inspector or a book keeper.
- Laurie Lee
didn´t want to go to school the first day, Austin didn´t have a certain opinion
about education.
- The Village
school was a disorderly one, people with old boots, ragged stockings, torn
trousers and skirts were skating and skidding everywhere, in place of the other
school in Barbados, everyone clean , with cut and clean hair.
- Apparently,
in the Conbermere School the was no harassment to other, but in the Village
school, the big ones harassed Laurie, they stole his potato, plucked at his scarves, spun him around and more, making him refuse
to go back to the school.
