The Highwayman (Oxford Children's Classics)

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He is one of those Byronic Heroes where life have destroyed him so many times that he destroys it hundred times back and never apologises for it.

I want to read more in the series because there are conflicting reviews, but otherwise this one fell kind of flat for me. Soon, with the warden's encouragement and permission, Black was painting murals throughout the prison, classic Highwaymen landscapes in unexpected venues. The stark color palette of blanks and white with touches of red serve as foreshadowing throughout the poem. I imagined a beautiful Bess and a devastatingly, dangerously handsome highway man, but apart from that the illustrations seem quite reminiscent of the imagery evoked by the poem and reflect the story well. I needed to 'see' Farah and Dorian again, especially their first meeting and when they fell in love.

She lost her closest friend and her husband, a man she committed herself to when she was just too young but much in love. So the question is can she escape punishment for the shooting and can she make a new happy ending with Rob the Ex-highwayman.

There are lies, half-truths, dangers, and love but most importantly, a feeling that destiny won't be denied. It has long been suspected that Captain Charles Johnson was a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe. Use chalk or white crayon on dark paper if you have any to create a ghostly picture of the highwayman and/or Bess at the end the poem.I loved that she never deserted Dougan when he was in prison, bringing him food every day and how his stories about her brought comfort to the other prisoners. When Farah revealed she went to Newgate prison everyday for the whole seven years that Dougan was there and brought him food because she made a promise that she would not let him starve again. This is the one time I wanted the hype to be true as it was for everyone else and I hate, but simultaneously don’t care, that this was a flop. If the Highwaymen faced discrimination at every door they knocked on, then the challenges--and dangers--were magnified for Carroll. In this case, Dorian has been traumatized by a decades-long stint in prison and came out the other side a murderer (and implied rapist) with severe touch aversion whose sole goal is to take over the London underworld.