Convict

"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin" (4). This gives a very in-depth description of the convict, and shows that he is clearly a pretty ragged-looking guy.

"'I'll eat my breakfast afore they're the death of me,' said he. 'I'd do that, if I was going to be strung up to that there gallows as there is over there, directly arterwards. I'll beat the shivers so far,  I'll bet you'" (19). This quote shows that the convict is very persistent and quite stubborn, and does not give up easily, if at all.

"'I don't expect it to do me any good. I don't want it to do me more good than it does now,' said my convict, with a greedy laugh. 'I took him. He knows it. That's enough for me'" (36). The convict does not want a reward for doing something good; for him, the knowledge that he did do something good is  reward enough.


I would have Hugh Jackman play the convict because he looks very gaunt and because he looks very fearful, just as the convict is said to look.