He criticizes the kids at his new school and says, "All these thirty bottle green kids making verbs with their northern noses plugged" this shows that he doesn't feel right and doesn't consider himself one of them. Frankie says that "the kids here are backwards", implying that he thinks they are much less intelligent than him, and thinks highly of himself. This shows us readers that Frankie is not trying to fit in and settle into his new situation but is instead purposely acting difficult, even saying in his letter to his old teacher “PS Please don't remove me from your registration document”. We can link this to the fact that he does not accept the situation and denies what is happening. The reader at this point has the feeling that Frankie is making things worse for himself and that he is guilty of being unhappy because he is making no effort to change the situation, not even bothering to buy a school uniform to start accepting his situation. . We see this as a youthful way of dealing with his problem and we can see that in order to accept it he needs to do so