You are Jack Crannery ('Bloody Jack') after Jimmy has hit you with a stone. You have told him never to come to the wharf again and he has gone. Write your thoughts.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2010). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. Jack Crannery thinks he has seen everything in his disappointing life but this is something which not even he expected.
2. What he sees as the betrayals of his life have led him into a life of solitariness until this strange boy crossed his path.
3. He thought he had struck up almost a paternal relationship with the boy, and then this.
4. Shock, growling anger will no doubt be the predominant feelings but perhaps reflection will follow.
5. Something of these feelings with relevant knowledge of the situation will be enough for adequate reward but something better we should expect something of the man's laconic personality to come through in the voice.