English Year 8 - Laurinda: Warwick Lam (Father)

Warwick Lam (Lucy's father)

Lucy’s father works at the local Victory Carpet Factory. He knows how hard life is in a place like Stanley and he desperately wants his daughter to get out of there. He believes in education as a way of escaping the inevitable and improving one’s situation. What is interesting about Warwick is his response to Lucy’s dissatisfaction at this new school. He acknowledges that these ‘friends’ will not be people she associates with outside of school. He cannot see the immediate problem, or else is deliberately ignoring it. The present state doesn’t matter; the future is what counts. He lives his own life with this perspective and has no appreciation for the intensity of being a teenage girl.