Notes on "A character who has shown responsibility in his actions and behaviour"

Pg 1
Rory is responsible. He makes sure granda takes his pills. It is just like living with a baby in the home.

pg 1
He asks granda to behave himself in the clinic when granda asks Rory whether he can apply for the jobs put up on the notice board.

pg 4
Rory does the shopping, cooking and cleaning of the house

pg 9, 24
Rory is a responsible boy. Granda relied on him to bring him his lunch every day. Not like other children at school , he has to go home during lunch time. He will always buy two hot pies at a bakery near his flat and bring them home for lunch.



pg 25
Rory will always hid granda's pipe when he is not around. He also hides the pipe before he goes to bed so that granda cannot smoke even if he wants to. (pg20)

pg 20
Rory doesn't play football even though at his age, boys always play football. He even lied that he doesn't like football. Mr Hood wants him to be in the school team as Rory is a good footballer but he refuses. He cannot attend the football practice because he needs to look after granda.

pg 10-11
Rory shows responsibility in his behaviour.
When Darren told Rory that his mum said that Granda should be put in a home, Rory asked Darren to tell her mother to mind her own business. Darren's Mum is just worried about Rory because a boy at his age should be playing football and not have that kind of responsibility to care for the elderly. She is also worried because Granda always forgets things and it would be dangerous if  accidents like the fire that happens during Parents Night occurs again. However for Rory, if it is not his responsibility , whose responsibility will it be. For him,  it will never happen again because Rory always hide Granda's pipe before they go to bed.

pg 16
when granda needs to go to the toilet, during Parents' Night, Rory takes Granda's hand and leads him to the toilet in the corridor. He also suggests that he can wait for Granda. Granda refuses by saying that he is not a baby. However Rory still worries that Granda will forge to pull up his zip or forget where he is and just go home.

** responsibility
** reasons why Rory brings Granda out of Rachnadar
Pg. 54-58
Rory knows that Granda dislikes staying in Rachnadar. Granda has once said told Rory to shoot him first before putting him in Rachnadar. (Page 11)

When Rory sees Granda crying with tears streaming down his face, asking him whether he is going to take him home, Rory also cries.
       
Rory realises that Granda is dying in Rachnadar. He may breathe, walk and eat but he would be dead inside. Even the nurses talk to him as if he were a little baby. All these make Rory realise that he has to bring Granda out of Rachnadar. Rory decides to run away with Granda  to fulfill his responsibility as a grandson and the only family Granda has at that moment.

 For Granda, Rachnadar is a place where "they put old folds that nobody wants". Granda mentions that nowadays nobody cares about anybody but themselves. People in his younger days cared about each other. For Granda , it is a horrible world now. Granda also said that if he was younger, he would run away from Rachnadar to somewhere people would never find him.


page 13
IRRESPONSIBLE PERSON
His father at first was not that responsible. His father left his mother because he couln't face responsibility. This is because he was a spoiled boy. Since he was a child, he got anything he wanted and when he got tired of it , he would throw it aside. He did the same to Rory's mother. Granda could not forgive what his father did.