Flashcards
Jasper Jones quotes and themes
Flashcards do conjunto (10)
- 1“This is the first time I’ve ever dared to sneak away from home...My exit from the window is a little like a foal being born. It’s a graceless and gangly drop...the application of pansy footwear, is my first display of girlishness and has taken me mere moments.” p2Charlie’s obedient nature is established here. But at the same time, we see him breaking his normal mould. Charlie is embarrassed of himself. There is a shame in his “girlishness” and almost We see the need in Charlie to meet Jasper’s standards.e, as young women readers, allowed to be offended, obvious negative connotations that come with Charlie’s girlishness
- 2What would my father have done? Or Mark Twain? Or Atticus Finch? It’s likely they wouldn’t be in this mess. But I’m not them. I’m an idiot. And a child. And I’ve done this all so very, very wrong.”p276Charlie wonders what his father, Mark Twain or Atticus Finch might have done. What is the connection between these three people and what does it tell us about Charlie?
Literary allusion ,Charlie's age- inability to make decisions. Short sentences. - 3“I spit and sniff and saw at my nose. ‘Okay, you roit? You ready?’” p3Charlie try to exert his manliness. equal himself to the manliness of Jasper., verbs and alliteration by Silvey here creates vivid imagery for the reader,brutish nature of Charlie’s actions, seemingly in contrast with a boy who has never snuck out of his house before and describes himself as girlish. colloquial language
- 4“Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan. He’s a Thief, A Thug, A Liar, a Truant. He’s lazy and unreliable...This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient.” p5capitalising these labels given to Jasper.
Charlie refers to Jasper by his full name. - 5“Someone pushes Jeffrey in the face. Someone else prods his arse hard with their finger...They all laugh at this with curled lips. Especially the coach, who looks up from his clipboard...I want to holler. I could point and swear. I could single this coach out. Tell him he’s a bloody disgrace...But that won’t ever happen.” p64the phrase ‘I could’ repeated ,What does this quote tell us about the type of person Charlie is?
Charlie is struggling to stand fro his freinds whrn faced wiht injustice, his inaction is more harmful then action. - 6“Why does he have to be so sensible? Why does he have to phrase things so well? He should have been a lawyer, like Atticus Finch. But he’d have to stand up for something then.” 106Rhetorical questions, literary allusions, resigned tone (my dad is so useless), he is in awe of his father’s skill
His tone changes, sometimes in awe of his father but sometimes he is disappointed in him
The reader better understands that he resents his father for not being what Charlie wants him to be and also that Charlie could have gotten some of his submissive qualities from his father - 7“His sureness and his presence make him easy to follow. I’m still afraid, of course, but something about being in his bubble is reassuring. I trust him straight up, though I have no reason to, and that makes me one of few.” 5Sureness, presence, easy to follow, reassuring, trust, bubble.
- dection: strong, dominant leader - easy to follow strong, superman, leader.
Shows that Jasper is someone Charlie looks up to
Shows the reader how Jasper is perceived from Charlie’s perspective: strong, superman, leader.
Shows that Jasper is someone Charlie looks up to
He’s discovering his own views of Charlie despite his preconceived ideas from the town
We understand that Charlie is capable of making his own decisions and constructing his own beliefs. - impressive considering his influential age - 8“We go to the police! That’s what we do. We go to the sarge and we tell him what happened and where she is, and they find out. That’s their job.” 14Shows innocence naivety as he is repeating his parents knowledge rather than making his own conclusions.
Also helps when combined with quote five.
That not everyone has the same view as him and sometimes people have had bad experiences with the police which influence their view on them but Charlie does not because he has never faced discrimination and has no reason to distrust the police.
He is naive and in this moment can’t comprehend that others don’t have the same opinions as him on something so engraved in him, like the motivations of the police. - 9“Our quiet, clean street belies its weight of oppression. An’s garden, the creeping heat, my wasp-hive bedroom, the brick in my belly, the she-devil awaiting my demise at home.”P. 78Personification is used as Charlie describes his street as being able to hold oppression. Personification is also used for heat. The connotation of the verb ‘creeping’ reveals an eerie, hidden dark mood of association.
She-devil is a metaphor of his mother, showing his immaturity and fear of conflict with his parents.
He no longer relies so heavily on his family and learns to think for himself. He has lost some form of respect for the adults/authorities of the town. - 10quotes to add to start of essays
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- Year 11 English FlashCards sobre Sem título, criado por Gracie Bruce em 13-08-2017.
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