“I Spy” by Graham Green

Charlie’s friendship with Jasper Jones, his parents, and witnessing the intolerance of Corrigan are the three biggest factors in Charlie's development from innocence to experience. Jasper Jones exposed him to fear and forced him to be brave and face his fears, the rampant intolerance in Corrigan, both racial and otherwise, exposed him to the injustices of the real world, and his relationship with his parents taught him to be diplomatic and control his

Charlie, also has a peculiar speech pattern. Despite being a young teenager, his language is somewhat outdated; and he has a sardonic sense of humor. He shifts from “fancy” vocabulary to a more simple type of speech on a regular basis. In his first letter of Part 4, he describes someone’s face as “ashen”; but he had previously described his family members using the words “nice” and “fat”. Surprisingly simple speech from someone so seemingly contemplative. He, Charlie, is also very “matter-of-fact” about things. He does not say things that he does not believe to be true; and if he’s unsure, he states his ignorance as a fact. This is easy to see in Part 1 when he states, “I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much,” like it was an immovable thought or an unchangeable

In the novel Charlie takes each person’s words into his heart and ponders about them thoughtfully. Nostrils Charlie’s best friend sticks by his side and is loyal at all times. While Nostrils is doing a job with Charlie, Nostrils gets beat up by Barlow and Nostrils tells Charlie to run which lands Nostrils in hospital. This teaches Charlie to be loyal and listen to what his friends tell him to do. Another incident is where Daisy Molony who is a prostitute tells Charlie to ‘use that money fer somethin’ good’, the filthy money that Squizzy Taylor gave to Charlie, for doing jobs for him. Mr Redmond is another strong character in Charlie’s life, teaching Charlie boxing, giving Charlie a gramophone and training him to run in the Ballarat mile. This shows Charlie, through an old man’s eyes, love and compassion. Mr Redmond dedicated a lot of time and energy for Charlie. All these people show Charlie a fragment of properties and qualities. From himself and spending time with his friends he learns how to nurture the feeling s of others but not the feelings one

The character of Charlie (being the protagonist) is who the readers are directly linked too, as we are taken on a journey with him through his actions, feeling, ideas and perspectives. His journey also includes his maturation/ coming of age as he does not escape from his issues and problems however he faces them head on. “I have no idea where we’re going. The further we move, the keener my apprehension grows. Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don’t.” The passage has shifted from the description of late-night Corrigan to the thoughts/feeling of Charlie. He has been called to a mysterious place by a peculiar figure called Jasper Jones. As they travel further and further away from Corrigan the more Charlie’s worry and doubt comes to him about where they are travelling, what they might be doing and why did Japer choose him over everyone else? The readers are unaware of why Charlie is following Jasper blindly and so is Charlie. This is a stage in the narrative where Charlie’s progression as a character starts. The mood is created here from the events that are happening and from the readers attachment to the protagonist. The thoughts of the characters are reflected as the feeling from the readers. In some ways we already understand what might happen based on different reading from

In the first thirteen pages, the readers are formally introduced to three major characters of the book: Charlie Bucktin, Jasper Jones and Laura Wishart; Jasper Jones and Charlie Bucktin are both starting adolescents, Charlie is very naive and fairly innocent to the world around him, whereas, Jasper Jones is very much aware of the cruelness of the world around him and is, in some ways, a lot more mature than Charlie. The book is written in Charlie’s perspective, on page 30, (lines 20-21) Charlie says “everything has been rocked with such rigour and tumult. Everything has been uprooted and broken.” The quote itself shows that Charlie has been relatively

Andy ventures out on a hunting trip with her father, her father’s friend, Charlie and Charlie’s son, Mac. Not every character in the story signifies something special, but a few do. Andy, the protagonist is a young, eight year

This entire book highlights both the high and low points in Charlie’s life, and how he changed and has not changed all from his constant value of friendship to his many realizations, based on the one experimental surgery that gave him insight on what life would be like if he was “normal”.

The boy is very warm-hearted and appears to struggle to understand that danger could occur at any moment, whilst his father knows a lot more about what some people, “the bad guys”, do in order to survive. It could be seen that the child is very naive and therefore trusts others more than his father. However his trust in others teaches his father a valuable lesson; that not everyone is a “bad guy”. For instance when the pair come across Ely, the father is wary about him but his son is adamant that they give him a tin of food. This shows to readers that the boy has faith unlike his father. Another example is when the son sees the little boy; he begs his father to go back and help him and asks if he can go with them. I believe that he wants to help others as

Charlie was a man that did not know how to stand up for himself. He allowed his peers to bully him, and treat him like he is worthless. Charlie thinks that if he allows people to laugh at him, and tease him, they will become his friend. He thinks “Its easy to make frends if you let

Quitters Inc by Stephen King is about Mr. Morrison, an addicted smoker who's friend gives him a business card and tells him to go to the place, he is told that if he goes there they will help him with his problems. He has an unpleasant experience with them but soon his life changes in a good way. in the end he meets with his friend just to find out that they had it worse. There are many uses of foreshadowing in the story but the most powerful one is when he meets Donatti, one of his statements lingers throughout the story. Cigarettes and smoking were not always viewed as something detrimental, in our era we now know that they can harm you.

A maxim of courage throughout the statement “courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear” mixed in with the repetition of ‘of fear’ alludes to Mark Twain’s superior comments in Huckleberry Finn. Charlie finds courage through his interpretations of powerful southern gothic novels. Young readers today still deal with ache of facing and accepting the truth. The commanding anaphora of ‘if’ and the depressed repetitive tone through the line, “if I run, I’m caught and floored and nailed. If I try to fight back, I risk complete annihilation, if I insult them, the same. If I tell someone about it, it’s a suspended death sentence” demonstrate a fear that Charlie constantly deals with, as he is seen as diverse in his country town Corrigan. The protagonist Charlie sees past the conformist and etches the truth through assertive tone with the phrase “everyone in this town is going to see that there’s nothing to be afraid of”. Additionally the pain that appears with facing fear is highlighted with an extended metaphor of darkness and symbolic cosmic imagery though Charlies line “often it’s not the darkness they’re afraid of, it’s the fact that they don’t know what’s in it”. Yet most significantly it is the fact that Charlie develops the courage to face these truths that shows us that he has truly developed “in a town full of liars”. The relevant themes of fear and

The story is seen through the innocent eyes of a 13 year old boy called Charlie Bucktin. The first person central point of view helps us to understand Charlie, to identify with him and his attitudes and values and for reader positioning. Silvey uses language

Charlie Buckpitt is the main character of the novel, he is 13 years old and lives in the small isolated country town Corrigan, Western Australia. He is a shy

In the story, Charlie experiences being lonely in different aspects of his life. The first one that he feels this in is his family. His family consists of his parents, his brother and sister, and his aunt Helen. His parents, especially his dad, have never really been that involved or shown much interest in his life. This is shown when after he had been on LSD and was found in the snow, they never questioned if he was on drugs, they just contributed it to his prior problems of “seeing” things. His dad usually just ignored Charlie because he was different and quieter than the other kids. Charlie’s brother isn’t in the story much because he’s away at college playing football for Penn State. Charlie’s sister is in the story pretty often, but she doesn’t really talk to

2. How does Charlie change through the course of the novel? How different is he from the person he is at the beginning of the novel to how he is at the end? Do you consider the novel’s ending to be tragic or inspiring? How so?