The Thieves Who Couldn’t Help Sneezing Essay -- Thomas Hardy

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...