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Cecil Redmond and his wife Mrs Redmond, are always there to help and support Charlie and his family, always giving them a helping hand when they can. Charlie quoted that, “they are like grandparents ,” to him and his brother. During the novel Mr Redmond teach Charlie boxing and trained him for the Mile race, also giving him some pointers along the way. Cecil taught Charlie boxing to help him with his self-defence. Charlie felt he needed to protect his Ma and younger brother. Charlie started lessons when he found out his Ma was getting abused by Mr Peacock. After weeks of training, Mr Redmond took Charlie to the Mile race in Ballarat. Together they both trusted and believed in each other, and to Charlie he was a his second dad, a father figure, the father Charlie needed to get his life back on track after his dad passed away. The Redmond’s were everything the Feehan’s needed, after the ups and downs after there fathers/husbands death, with the support and guidance they gave, it all worked out.
Through Charlie’s teenage years , Charlie matures and develops as a person, he realises that he needs to take decisions that are safe for him and his family. Charlie makes good and bad decisions. He becomes aware that he needs a new job that is safe for him, his friends and family and starts to fall for someone of the opposite sex. When Charlies father died, Charlie had to step into his place. Poor Charlie struggled to provide for his Ma and brother. He had always “dreamed of something more, something better. Even just a slice”. Later on in the novel Charlie’s job, working for Squizzy Taylor the biggest gangster in Richmond, resulted in his best friend Nostrils getting beaten up, and badly injured. When Charlie was visiting Nostrils, in the hospital Charlie wished he had done something different. Charlie thought his job was “getting too dangerous.”And before anything else could happen he quit, dumping his boots right under Squizzy’s nose. Charlie...