Jasper Jones Quotes for Characterisation Essay

Question 1

“I mean, I know people have always been afraid of me… Wary. They reckon I’m just half an animal with half a vote. That I’m no good. And I always used to think, why? They don’t even know me… But then I realised, that’s exactly why. That’s all it is.”

Answer 1

• dialogue of jasper
• shows injustice and racist society
• characterisation of jasper

Question 2

“hes a truant, a thief, a liar, a thug, a truant. Hes lazy and unreliable, hes feral and an orphan or as good as. His mother is dead and his father is no good”

Answer 2

• characterisation of jasper
• through the ears of Charlie
• repition
• racist society

Question 3

“hes a murderer thats what they say.”
“hes mad. Mad Jack Lionel. he kills kids who knock on his door”

Answer 3

characterisation of jack lionel
- misunderstood

Question 4

“ive dome everything wrong. Mad jack lionel isnt a criminla. hes probably not even mad. hes just sad and poor and lonely”

Answer 4

characterisation of jack lionel

Question 5

“under every rock, hidden in every closet, shaken from every tree. it seems there is something. i dont want to see”

Answer 5

• characterisation of charlie
• skiddish

Question 6

Charlie actions, he is always on edge, stuttering and not sure what to do.
- how they have described him (reads a lot, how he dresses) shows a stereotypically scaredy- cat