Siguiendo estas explicaciones, no concuerdo con la opinión de que Mikey está haciendo ver que todos los gitanos de este libro (y por ende todos en general) son groseros, violentos etc.

I found the fact that his gypsy identity is still so deeply rooted quite fascinating as well as the rivalry between the Romani and the Irish travellers.

However, in her rejection she misses just about every other point this book has to make and why people like Stephen Fry think this is a very touching and important piece of auto-biography. If I slept from dusk until dawn and people told me about the beautiful moon at night and my experience was only that pale white shadow that occasionally appears in the day-time sky would I believe in it or would I think that what I saw was what there was? He'd been thinking about it from the age of 15, as he moved around from Manchester to London, teaching himself to read, miraculously ending up at Guildhall studying drama ("I never wanted to be an actor. I often meet grown men and women who are shocked that ‘Gypsies’ are not fantasy creatures of the mermaid and unicorn ilk. The book is primarily about how the author coped in an abusive family within an abusive community cut off from the outside world.

I didn't need them to say anything but it was like they were reading the book and it was like a bomb falling from the sky.Life is fighting, drinking, getting money (not always legitimately) and staying away from his father. Little Mikey has no other measure to measure himself and his family against than that of the community he is born into. Repito que las dos únicas malas personas son aquellas que cometen faltas graves hacia la integridad del protagonista, no las que están condicionadas por la sociedad. Warwick said in the comments on his review of The Fringe Dwellers about attitudes towards the aborigines of Australia: "[I]t seems a bit like that to me too, it's kind of like Europeans with Roma Gipsies. Written by a Romani author, this story depicts the struggle between tradition and following your own passions.