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A boy from poor family, resorts to stealing to feed himself and his mother

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1 Reviews | 14 pages | 7 years ago | Draft 1
Set in the 1900s, it is about a poor boy, who steals to from his villagers to provide for his mother and his family.

Although the short end justifies the means, his mother who is reluctant to scold him for his unethical manner of working for food.

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In general the script is well written. The concept is not original yet the way the writer interpreted the story is interesting.
In page 8, when the mother is searching for her son, the scene is poorly written, each house she visits to check on her son should be an independent scene and not part of a big scene because again technically a change in scenes occurs when the place or time changes. Sometimes both.
On a personal level the scene at sch...

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