The fact that there's an entire three-day event devoted to the making of, for instance, tiny boxes of soap flakes suggests to me that an awful lot of Norton readers grew up, like the generous human Boy who gives the Borrowers exquisite doll's house furniture, with an urge to create the perfect environment for Pod, Arrietty and Homily.
His interest is primarily in the relationship between the two boys, and on Tahir's chances, in terrible circumstances, of growing from a generous, open-hearted boy into a decent and dependable man.
As in real life, rarely anyone gets saved by a last-minute cheque from a generous uncle; that boy who's been messing that girl around all her life doesn't come good and change his ways; lonely old people drink and smoke until they die – and that's pretty much it.
Louis was one of the original good ole boys, generous to a fault, well-liked and totally irresponsible.
He remembered Mr. Dillman as a generous, "outgoing" and "bubbly" boy — and said he was the same as a man.
There's the wild narrator the psychic outlaw' the generous but very spoiled boy' and the criminal egomaniac'.
Once a spirited, animated, generous child – "a good boy", in the words of one witness – he has allowed the bitterness of guilt and shame to change him.
He is a generous, creative, spirited little boy who, while tall for his age, had just turned five, making him one of the youngest boys in the class.
Dabbous said, "He's a very normal boy before — kind, generous, always the smiling kind.
