LEWIS LLOYD
That particular week, however, the final visitor was unexpected.
‘The Long Walk Home’ is about the loss of childhood innocence. Set in the late 1960s, it is written retrospec- tively from a first-person viewpoint, with a grown man recounting an event he experienced as a child. My pres- entation of childhood is influenced by Joyce and Greene, and their focus on the element of freedom: the desire and need to explore the world around them that all children share. Contextually, I wanted the environment to be fairly enclosed: the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small, suffocating chapel and the railway station beside it, to demonstrate the restricted, over-protected nature of my narrator’s early life.
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