The novel Lockie Leonard by Tim Winton is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who moves to a new town. He struggles to settle in and make new friends in his new school until he falls in love with the most popular girl in the school. Vicki is very mature, outgoing, a rule breaker and always goes against what her parents think or say, however Lockie is conservative, aware of his actions and respects his parents highly. The novel explores the themes of love, puberty, happiness, values and respect, peer pressure versus family.
The idea of love is explored in the novel in the relationship between Lockie Leonard and Vicki Streeton.
Lockie moves to his new town and as you would expect he struggles to fit in at school, to make new friends and to be accepted. Lockie falls in love with the smartest, rich, pretty girl in the class, Vicki Streeton. Vicki wants a superficial relationship where she can experience her first kiss whereas Lockie believes that they will last forever. As we have discovered, Vicki is a rule breaker with little to no morals however, Lockie is shy and careful of his actions. Their relationship is very up and down as they are two very different people.
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Forget it. It’s over.”
“I am finished with you. No friends crap, orright? Don’t come round anymore, don’t speak to me, don’t even smile at me in the quadrangle.” Says Vicki after Lockie rang her.
Tim Winton is recommending to the readers that there are many hardships to a first love and to not be too caught up in your