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Dear Mr Cairney By Graham Lay Essay

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Dear Mr Cairney – By Graham Lay What is the story about? “Dear Mr Cairney” a short story written by Graham Lay, is a story mostly about victimization and prejudice. A past pupil reads a local paper and finds out that a teacher (Mr Cairney) that was a reliever for his class twenty five years back had successfully been selected as headmaster of Rimu Park Intermediate. This student, who had attended Rimu Park Intermediate twenty-five years back, now as an adult, writes a letter to Mr Cairney (with no signature) recalling a very unpleasant and prolonged experience he had as a student of his. Mr Cairney was 21 years old when he taught this past pupil but is now a bit old because his hair has receded slightly to his temples. Mr Cairney was revealed as a bias character and was someone who picked on the past pupil for no particular reason. One quote in the short text says, “I remember looking at you and wondering again why it was that it was always me getting into trouble when with Mrs Hunter I had never been kept in”. This showed us that Mr Cairney was cruel and hard-hearted because he picked on an innocent student time and time again for no reason at all. It was obviously true that Mr Cairney was bias because out of all the students in the class, he decided to intimidate the past pupil. Mr Cairney kept him in class afterschool and gave him two unfair

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