Willy Russel's novel, The Wrong Boy, gives an insight into a world that society has never experienced and find difficult to empathise with. As the book progresses, readers realise Raymond Marks is a boy struggling to survive a succession of miseries on his journey from childhood through to manhood. He experiences the pressure and importance society places on him to conform. Issues are raised throughout the novel highlighting their importance to society.
             The importance of strong relationships impacts greatly on social factors. Society sees' that having strong relationships, helps build a barrier of trust and hope such as Raymond's relationship with his Gran. She strengthens him to take a better view on such problems as the fly-trapping. Raymond finds himself running to his Gran's place after argument with his mum, because he knows his Gran would understand and support him. She strongly believes in Raymond and seems to be the only one who believes he didn't rape Paulette. What ended the relationship is when she falls to a disease, short term memory loss and once again he is on his own.
             Raymond's relationship with his mother is strong until she realises what he has done at the canal. She was heavily influenced by society and wanted Raymond to lead a normal life so she changed her attitude and beliefs sending him to Grimsby for work. We are heavily persuaded by the views of Society for it to accept ourselves. Raymond's role model, Morissey, disliked Society's view on being 'normal' and changed his viewpoints on such things as working.
             The novel raises questions on how much understanding and support a child should receive. She laughed and was unable to understand the struggle Raymond was going through and her views were influenced by society. She was unable to support her son through such incidents as his mental illness, fly-trapping and his invention of Malcolm. This was because s
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