It is interesting that, out of all the questions you have
listed above, none of the answers are given to us in the text directly. Instead, to find
out these answers, we have had to infer the responses from the information given by the
text. The inferences you have made are based on your ability to pick up on indirect
characterisation, or the ways in which characters are presented to us based on the
observations you have made about characters and the kind of people that they are. This
of course requires more effort and brain power than simply being given the information
by the narrator.
For example, based on your first question,
we are not told why Mrs. Jones does not call the police, but we can see from what she
does for him later on that she is concerned above all that Roger leaves this situation
having learnt right from wrong, because Mrs. Jones recognises that the police would not
be able to teach him this.
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