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Brooklyn Cop Quotations
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- 1"Built like a gorilla but less timid"Portrayed to us as an animal, suggests aggression. The violence has shaped his life physically and mentally.
- 2"Hieroglyphs in his face"His eyes have no emotion, they are hardened and cold. It suggests he is immune to violence and this helps him to do his job.
- 3"The thin tissue over violence."Tissue = the divide between civilisation and violence. Easily torn and fragile. Suggests the violence is always close by.
- 4"See you babe... Hiya honey"Clichés suggest that the cop is a stereotypical American however we soon realise that he is actually expressing genuine emotion, hoping he will see his wife again.
- 5"He hoped it, he truly hoped it."Creates sympathy as the reader realises that he has a dangerous job and there is always a risk that he may not come back. It turns the clichés around.
- 6"Should the tissue tear"Emphasises the inevitability of the violence. It is so easy for violence to break out.
- 7"What clubbing, what gunshots between Phoebe's Whamburger and Louie's Place"The cop is using violence to stop violence, creating a never ending cycle of violence. Even the public places are caught up in the violence and their names suggest violence.
- 8"Who would be him?"Creates sympathy as it makes the reader realise no one wants his job.
- 9"This time"Parenthesis- slows down the line and creates sympathy. Emphasises that his job is so dangerous he may not return one day.
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