A Character Study of Colin Mudford in Morris Gleitzman’s novel “Two weeks with the Queen”
...ination sometimes gets a bit carried away. He is also quite naive. He sees a doctor about Luke and the doctor says, “He’s going to die.” Colin then stared, his body had stopped working, his mind had stopped working.” Colin’s family is very important to him, especially Luke because he rushes home when he sees that all the happiest people in the hospital are the ones with family around them. At one point in the story Colin is thinking about how the hospital are going to give up trying to save Luke. “How dare they, how dare they give up and let Luke die.” Although Luke gets more attention from his parents, Colin still cares for him a lot. When Colin is in London, he develops a good friendship with his cousin called Alastair. Throughout the novel, Alastair, (who is bossed about by his parents) grows stronger and braver and near the end of the book when Colin is just about to go to the Amazon jungle to search for a cure for cancer, “Here we go, thought Colin what problem has he thought of this time.” “Colin.” “Yes” “Can I come with you.” This wasn’t the answer Colin had expected. Colin does not like Uncle Bob and Auntie Iris very much because they are quite strict. After Colin sneaks away one day, Uncle Bob and Auntie Iris bolt the back door so that Colin cannot get out but he unscrews the lock. He also meets a person called Griff who has AIDS and is a homosexual. Colin sees pictures of Griff at Teds flat where he looks like a big muscly man, then later on when he actually meets him in the hospital. “Now Colin was looking at the thinnest man he’d ever seen. This couldn’t be Griff. In the photo Griff had had bulging arms and his smiling mouth had made his face sort of bunch out at the cheeks. The man lying with his eyes closed in the...