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Trash by Andy Mulligan
Mind map: Trash by Andy Mulligan
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Trash by Andy Mulligan
plot, character, setting and style
harrowing
- plot
- subject matter
- specific scenes: prison/ police station/ dump
- Setting
- dump/prison/police station
- Style
- 1st person narrative. Adds realism
- character
- Rat (living with rats)
- Pia. Abandoned and alone
- Gabriel Olondriz. Imprisoned wrongly
- plot
exhilarating
- plot
- Tension/pace/mystery/happy ending/children taking on corruption/peril
- character
- clever, likeable, persistent, brave, honourable
- setting
- contrast between the dump and the island ending/ sense of freedom when they leave/ varied setting
- Style
- Hooks, clues/characters tell the reader that they are in danger/Reader also enjoys putting together the clues as the boys unravel them
- plot
humbling
- plot
- shows the reader extreme poverty
- character
- The characters are extremely honourable especially given their absolute poverty
- setting
- The setting is extremely grim, extremely poor and extremely dangerous.
- style
- First person narrative. Personality of the children is apparent, their modesty, their care for one another and their thoughtfulnes
- plot
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- 'Trash' is described as "harrowing, exhilarating, humbling and quite brilliant". Discuss why this is an appropriate description of the novel. Refer closely to plot, character, setting and style.
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