Summer People
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Summer people is about a sixteen year old boy named Julian, who lives in a Holiday village called Sheringham it is more like a holiday resort. Which means that there are many tourists during the summer but in the winter the village Sheringham reverts to its antique state (s. 1 l. 13). When the summer time comes, the three summer months May, July and August the Summer People arrive to Sheringham. They shall stay there until September where the summer time is over. . It is only when summer time comes the village is lively and it is filled with people. Julian lives with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Holroyd. Julian dont know what to do, He is facing a huge quandary about his future. Julian doesnt know if he should follow his dream of becoming an artist or he should listen to his fathers advice and continue school? It is really a tough decision for Julian because on the one hand he is really talented at drawing, making art and making experiments with his art, it is just want he wants to do and he loves it. But on the other hand there is his fathers wish for his education. His mother and especially his father who is a newsagent-cum-stationer arent happy with his interest in painting and making art. They think Julian should continue his scientific career, although his mother tells him that he can always keep up his drawing and artwork as a kind of hobby (s. 3 l. 96-97).
But the parents attitude to their sons painting changes after they meet Miss Hoare. Mr. Holroyd, Julians father dont like the summer tourist, but his attitude to Miss Hoare is different and he tells the family at home that Miss Hoare was staying at the most expensive hotel in Sheringham, Julians parents are very aware of their reputation Sheringham, and it shows in the text, they like having afternoon tea at the most expensive hotel in the town in a rather ostentatious way (s. 2 l. 36). And the only reason they like Miss Hoare, is because she is a stylish woman, she seems to be a fashionable, upper-class woman, she has scarlet lipstick on, has cropped hair and she wears clothes of a kind not generally seen in Sheringham (s. 2 l. 40). Julians parents introduces him for Miss Hoare, although his parents doesnt mean he have any chance as an artist and painter, and only because Miss Hoare is so rich and perfect they think she can help Julian with his artwork, they set up a meeting so Julian and Miss Hoare can talk and Miss Hoare can help and give Julian advice with his painting.
Julian did not take her serious in the beginning, he thought that a women like Miss Hoare could not possible take his art seriously or maybe he was scared of her opinion. But a while after they started to spend more and more time together. Everything seems to