In crime writing, the criminals are not usually bad people, for example in Brighton Rock Pinkie was not a bad person when he was younger as his harsh background is what pushed him to turn into a life of criminal activity, such as joining a gang and killing Hale. This is presented in the book where we read about him dealing with his emotions and what he saw when he was younger. Firstly, we read about Pinkie’s tough childhood where he witnessed his parents having sex every week right in front of him in the room they shared. Greene writes about ‘the frightening weekly exercise of his parents which he watched from his single bed’. This quote conveys the idea of Pinkie’s parents total disregard to Pinkie’s mental state as Pinkie saw the ‘frightening’