Why Does Pinkie Say Hale Was Killed?
Pinkie is the seventeen-year-old head of a Brighton race gang, and the leader of Cubitt, Dallow, and Spicer. Pinkie orders Charles Hale’s murder in revenge for Kite’s death, which he blames on Hale’s newspaper reporting. Why was Hale killed in Brighton Rock? The murder of Kite triggers the actions in the novel’s narrative. Precipitated by …