Smiths Outlook on Life in Sillitoes The Loneliness of the Long Distan

There are two basic facts in smiths life one, that hes in a struggle with the In-laws, and two, that hes going to fight it until the day he dies, or die fighting. From Smiths perspective, there is an impassable line between him and the In-laws, who are out to pull in him, and his best method of success is beating them down. In taking revenge on the regulator of Borstal, Smith thinks he has succeeded. What Smith doesnt realize is that he, not the governor, truly loses when he loses the race. Smith needs to revise his world view to realize that there is a better way of get what he wants, and the revenge he seeks is only a sign of his weakness and unhappiness with his own life. By focusing his energy on getting revenge, Smith compromises his opportunities and ability to succeed. Ultimately, his actions are a loss for Smith more than for the people he is fighting.Smith sees the authority figures around him as a threat to his happiness. To Smith, the cops and the governor of Borstal block his success. This is such a strong reality for him that the idea of them being on his side is impossible If only them and us had the same ideas wed get alongbut they dont see eye to eye with us and we dont see eye to eye with them, so thats how it stands and how it allow always stand (7-8). The them he refers to are people like the governor of Borstal and the cops, the In-law blokes who, according to him, are all on the watch for Out-law blokes like Smith wait to phone for the coppers as soon as he makes a false move (10). Furthermore, his strongest truth is that he is alone I knew what the loneliness of the long-distance runner outpouring across country felt like, realizing that as far as I was c erstwhilerned this feeling was... ...ke Smith, they become ever more revengeful towards those who end up punishing them for not being something they have no real incentive to be.Ultimately, criminals such as Smith end up wasting societys resources (cops time and citizens money), w asting their own energy which could be better used to make them economically productive and contributing members of society, and making society less golosh by reducing the mutual trust of societys members due to thefts. The society does not seem to have a good way of traffic with criminalsSmith is not rectified in any manner by Borstal, and merely punished. Perhaps society needs to focus on increasing fiscal opportunities for the poor rather than trying to change values that are really an outcome of the society in which they grow up. The core problem is the society once that is fixed, values will change automatically.