The Thieves Who Couldn’t Help Sneezing

The Thieves Who Couldn’t Help Sneezing

There is one main character in this story, Hubert. We barely get any

description of the physical features of Hubert; however what we do

find out is: he is a fourteen year old boy, a ‘yeoman’s son’ with a

horse named Jerry. All of them resided in Wessex.

‘A man darted from the thicket’

‘Another man’

‘And Another’

These three quotes; all from the same paragraph tell us that there are

in total three robbers. Yet again there is very little detail about

any of the three robbers; two descriptions of the few criminals there

states that their faces are ‘artificially blackened’, and at least one

of them had a, ‘deep voice’.

In the whole of the short story there is possibly twenty-six other

people; these are briefly mentioned throughout the story. Only one of

the twenty six people get named and that person is, ‘Sir Simon’.

Unlike ‘Tony Kytes’ there is one main character, Hubert.

Only two settings are used, they are the ‘mansion’, and the, ‘Vale of

Blackmore’. This is more complicated and detailed than ‘Tony Kytes’;

where...