When the author creates the scene when Link arrives in London for the first time

When the author creates the scene when Link arrives in London for the first time, Link is displayed as naive and making a few crucial mistakes that can not repard. Swindells elaborates this when his character Link quotes this metaphor “You’re on the old downward spiral,” When Link says the words old and spiral in the metaphor, makes it seem as if Link has had more mistakes before he was even homeless, as a result of this, it causes the readers to have sympathy for link. The important matter is that Link uses a metaphor. This further adds to the fact that once you make at least one tiny mistake. There will never be any turning back