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KESKes is a story of knowledge, of love and not just roughly a boy and his hawk, It shows the life of a boy from a poor family, and his sputter to get through his teenage years, a story of a boys life which was planned before he was even born.It all in all starts with a boy named baton Casper, nightstick is the central character in the play and some may say that he is no angel but is he really a villain? He may have nearly knocked Mr Porter of his ladder and he hits Jud when hes drunk but all of his wrongdoings are neer unprovoked, like when Jud steals Billys food and pushes him out the way whenever hes in a hurry.Billy is bullied in school because of his size, as he is a lot smaller than all the other children, he is mistreated by his mother by his fellow peers and by his teachers, but not all his teachers, Mr Farthing is probably the all person that Billy trusts to be around Kes because, he understands, he understands that Billy isnt the sharpest tool in the box and that his bird is the only thing that sets him apart from all the other children in his school. Where many would have just given up trying to tame the bird, Billy has exceeded he is now confident enough to give a speech in front of the whole class because in his mind he is iodine thing that all the other boys arent, he is unique.The story is set in a run down Yorkshire mining town where the best job you stomach get is ending up down dingy old, dark shaft mining.Billys family is broken. Jud, mum and Billy constantly bicker and bully each other. Billy realises that most of his problems come from home and the fact that no one supports him, everything started to go wrong for Billy when his dad left and all we hear about him is that He ere a wrong en . There is no one to provide support for Billy the only person who does is Mr Farthing. Billy loves Kes and she becomes part of his family. It is in two ways cruel that Kes is killed by Jud, who should know how much the bird meant to Billy. Famil y life then is not always happy, but its possible to survive, yet it affects peoples behaviour and attitudes.