jasper jones Flashcards
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characters intro
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- vehicle that drives a tests plot
- characters challenge dominant expectations
- JJ bildungsroman novel set in 1960s in small mining town of corrigan in was
- contains range of characters that are mistreated and misunderstood due to prevailing dominant expectations
- challenges the readers dominant expectations of a range of stereotypes
- ruth bucktin - gender
- jeffery - race
- charlie - masculinity
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charlie masculinity
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- challenges male stereotypes
- not typical masculine man
- expected to be brace, no better then average at school and see women as sex objects
- first scene JJ comes to charlie’s window for help, putting sandals on
- “its my first display of girlishness so i job back with as much masculinity as i muster”
- 1st person POV see inside mind
- men expected to be sporty and brave
- charlie has to change himself to fit in wouldn’t be accepted
- intelligent, stirs up town bully, giving him someone to verbally abuse
- “if i use a word he believes is too clever he will seek me out and will repeat the offending word like mantra, punching me on each shoulder”
- harassed smart word used as fuel t the fire
- abuse the word and charlie himself
- doesn’t see women as sex object
- “behind me someone wolf whistles, they’re all laughing, show us your tits”
- typical attitude of men
- thought it was ok
- expected to drop everything for men including standards
- charlie is different
- notice eliza for her hair and how they laugh
- he had respect, treated her as a human rather then object
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ruth gender
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- subverts prevailing notions held by women
- reflects second wave feminism
- brought change, woman sought equal rights
- before weren’t able to break away from patriarchal society
- “she arrives home bitter and irritable, as though she’s been led back to her cell after a foiled escape”
- desire to break away from dominant expectations
- house acts as prison cell
- forced to be stay at home mum when pregnant
- went ready aand not what she wanted
- couldn’t get job and have baby
- “she’s always been curt and impatient.. maybe she’s finally fed up. its clear to everyone, that she hates corrigan”
- once nurturing mother, sick and tired keeping up appearances
- challenges gender stereotypes placed on her in the time
- more then just a housewife
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jeffery lu race
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- challenges stereotypes as he breaks away from ideas about minority groups
- expected he didn’t below in the community, weak and marginalized, problem, not welcomes, unlikeable, lack of success
- last man standing scene
- “i can scarcely believe it, not only have they furnished him with a refreshing drink but they’re conveying information like he’s a real team mate”
- social currency of sport
- treated as outcast, now part of cricketing community
- ‘scarcely’ demonstrates even his best friend can’t believe it
- immerse in aus culture
- challenges expectations of unlikeable and not worth befriending through relationship with charlie
- MJL house to get peaches
- “fuck it then let me come down with you. ill go with you. if we go down we go down together”
- person of great worth and bravery
- worth getting to know and befriending
- have your back
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characters conclusion
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- construction of an array of characters dominant expectations are subverted
- ruth charlie jeffery all act as beacons that challenge prevailing ideas surrounding race gender and masculinity
- understand the importance in challenging these stereotypes
- able to find happiness be who they are
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setting intro
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- vehicle that drives texts plot
- help convey ideas
- JJ by craig silvey bildungsroman novel set in 1960s in small mining town of corrigan in wa
- significant places with represent ideas
- bucktin house hold - appearances vs reality
- the glade - sanctuary
- lu garden - racism
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bucktin household appearance vs reality
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- facade on outside truth and unhappiness on inside
- 1960s brought strict roles
- mother = nurturer
- small town mentality everyone knew everything
- 2 sided world create tension and unhappiness
- “id embarrassed her that night i was caught, id shattered the facade, id sullied her repute, i was no longer a model child and she was no longer a model mother”
- outside seemed as if perfect family and son
- never had anything to be embarrassed of
- grows up = perfect family fades away
- caught drunk sneaking out
- no longer successful mother
- whole town knew
- then ruth let loose
- “my mother was furious, she began screaming at my father. she called him a poor parent, useless husband. accused him of not caring fro anyone other then himself”
- seem perfect on outside
- what happens inside tells another story
- unhappy marriage stress and strain of relationship
- chaarlie exposed to reality
- shows struggle to conceal the truth
- makes people feel limited and watched
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glade sanctuary
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- place to escape reality
- 1960 brought racism abuse prejudice
- jasper suffers racism, drunk father, need new home
- “ive never seen inside it before, jasper has made it his own, shelves with tins cooking untensils, tea sugar”
- glade as his home, somewhere he feels safe
- able to escape hostile town of judgement condemnation and being treated as an outsider
- only place not used as scapegoat
- place where laura went to escape abusive father
- “its so private and sovereign here, so timeless, its so easy to forget the cold inclemency you stumbled from”
- way of escaping abuse and hectic world
- ‘cold inclemency’ represents horrible rough world
- accepted both jeffery and laura
- talk about insecurities still accept each other
- relied on each other
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lu garden racism
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- set when vietnam war was beginning
- aus sent troupes to fight
- many people lost people they knew, now hate veitnamese
- blame put on lu family due to nationality
- beautiful garden
- unexpectedly garden is destroyed, physically and verbally abused
- “i see four men destroying an’s garden they pull at his flowers, his small shrubs uprooting everything”
- demonstrates how lu family takes pride in their house
- proud to live in corrigan, part of community
- gives sense of contribution
- racism takes over, destroying garden and what they took pride in
- destroyed one way they could contribute
- men abused an
- “ab doesn’t fall down then they hit him in the face, they grab him and pull him and keep hitting him. swinging, kicking, i can hear them shouting ret rat, fucking red rat”
- displays man inhumanity to man
- due to race, nothing to do with war
- caused by small town mentality, people influenced by dominant attitudes
- ‘red rats’ seen as communists, animals
- indication to leave
- racism born through ignorance
- get to know them, would realize they are like them
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setting conclusion
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- setting conveys ideas
- bucktin household showcased limitations placed on people of the time due to strict gender roles
- glade symbolic of safe place away fro ignorant hostile attitudes
- destruction of garden demonstrates there was a time people didn’t want change
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bildungsroman
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- challenges deeper understanding of the world
- through ideas of racism, bravery and family
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racism - bildungsroman
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- shows how charlie develops
- loses innocence exposed to racism
- beginning doesn’t understand why there is racism
- end beings to understand and see more of it and why it occurs
- “why did that just happen? why would anyone do that to an?”
- sees him as wonderful man
- doesn’t occur to him its racism
- innocent first time being exposed to racism
- “i wondered how many of them had mentioned jaspers name over the past week, probably all of them”
- begins to understand that people blame jasper for things he didn’t do
- entering adulthood more used to it
- understands how his parents can brush it off
- maturing due to being challenged to understand racism
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bravery - bildungsroman
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- always listen to what parents said
- never did anything wrong
- develops from innocent obedient child
- “they’d have to assume id been snatched. kidnapped. this is by far the worst transgression probably my only ever transgression”
- lives in confined world, life is routine
- child safe and secure under watchful control of parents
- transformation from innocent to an independent young adult
- explored when he talks back to mother after catching her having an affair
- “no you dug this hole you fill it in. I’m not going with you”
- no, not shows assertiveness, showing dominance
- shift in power
- analogy of digging a hole that his mother gave him earlier in novel
- shows he understands the lesson
- matures from innocent voice to dominant voice
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family - bildungsroman
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- exposed to family issues and drama
- gives understanding of world
- “my mother was furious. she began screaming at my father. she accused him of not caring for either me or her, not for anyone other then himself”
- unhappy marriage, stress and strain of relationship
- becomes more mature and understanding
- no longer innocent child
- “close enough to see my mother grappling a man i don’t recognize”
- exposed to unhappiness and lies
- only reason she didnt leave was to keep it away from charlie
- been lied to gets deeper understanding of world
