He has very clear ideas about the world and how it works, though of course being a young person and being an immigrant, some of the things he feels sure of are not quite right.

Hari je simpatičan protagonista, neubičajeno naivna duša koja je otrgnuta od svega što je znala i koja se bori sa okruženjem koje prevazilazi njegova iskustva. Think of an extended version of the child Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes minus the infected eyes and the stinking river or an older version of the little boy in Emma Donoghue’s 2010 Booker shortlisted Room minus the escape scene. along with Harri's narrative, trying too hard to give extra dual-meaninged significance to the title (and draw allusion, maybe, to Jonathan Livingston Seagull). The dead boy even told the rogues to leave me alone one time when they were hooting me for wearing ankle-freezers (that's when the legs of your trousers are too short).Thus, Harri convinces himself that if he teaches the Dell Farm Crew about God, he can benefit from their protection while maintaining his morals.

This is reflected in his idiosyncratic use of English and his observations about British customs, some of which he finds very strange. I have read a few reviews that have said people were initially put off by the fact that book was narrated by an eleven year old.The novel was heavily influenced by the real killing of a 10-year old boy in a south London council estate in 2000).