Analysis Of Patrick Barclay 's Award Winning Work

This period of our lives is a one bursting with challenging events and life-changing transitions, don’t you think? However testing this phase may be though, it's how we accept and counteract these alterations that ultimately opens up a deeper understanding of our world and self. J.C. Burke’s thought provoking novel, ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ and John Marsden and Matt Ottley’s heartbreaking picture book ‘Home and away’, address this concept of transition and their challenges associated as each protagonist undergoes a catastrophic journey surrounding a challenged attitude and the need for maturity development.

In the first line of Sunderland’s book, we are presented with a future “end” to the baron’s life.

Q. "Anthony Eaton portrays the issues of the abuse of authority and power through chracterisation". Discuss this statement providing close references to the novel.

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he

The chapter titles are ’The Carew Murder Case’, ‘Incident of the Letter’, ‘Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon’, ‘Incident at the Window’, ‘The Last Night’. Whereas from chapter nice onwards as the narrative is resolved the tension decreases, in fact the chapters all called ‘Dr Lanyon’s Narrative’ and ‘Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case’. Some chapters are flashbacks and are events which happen before but are placed after, therefore it is non-linear. This creates confusion in the reader, but it also clears some of the doubts because of the unexplained information in the novel.

pp. 140-141 structural centre of the novel; visits Daniel in gaol for the first time; turning point for Tom as he can’t get any worse

Remarque prefaces his novel with a short statement to emphasise its purpose to the reader. In the preface Remarque clarifies that the book was created as neither an accusation nor a confession, it had not even intended to be an adventure

Before investigating the novel’s many relationships, it is necessary to acknowledge Barbara’s character traits in order to substantiate the idea that the novel 's greatest irony is that ‘This book isn’t about me’(4). This is a concept hidden in plain sight: Joanna Briscoe of

The article displays an appeal to credibility through detailed accounts of Debrow’s life, yet there is also careful consideration to elicit specific emotions throughout the text. Hollandsworth makes a prominent appeal to pathos through literary devices and specific use of detail. “The night of the robbery, Edwin drank Thunderbird wine mixed with grape Kool-Aid” (para. 23). This is an example of selective use of detail and literary devices together; he juxtaposes the crime and Thunderbird with the nostalgic and childlike connotation of grape Kool-Aid. Hollandsworth constantly reminds the reader that Debrow was 12, even though he may seem to be so hardened and already involved with a gang, crime,

The use of current events as inspiration for historical events has been referenced by Barker who notes, “Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963… is structured to make the disclosure of racist laws and mindsets, the events of a church bombing, and the realities of nineteenth-century American slavery, which might otherwise feel quite distant to the novels’ contemporary potential readers, real and personal” (178). The structure of the novel is the 90s framework of events.

Edmond Dantes: the man of many faces including The Count of Monte Cristo, Chief clerk of Thomson, Abbe Busoni, Lord Wilmore, M. Zaccone and Sinbad the Sailor. Edmond is Incredible resourceful, his plan for vengeance against the people who tarnished his innocents and threw him into jail is so large and so complex. The reader gets distracted by the small things, caught up with what is going on not paying to the big picture then boom Edmond shows us his hand. Edmond hustles and cons everyone in the room to doing what he wants them to do. And develops a serious gods complex throughout the novel till he realize later on that he is not the messenger of god, and the world he has created around himself comes crashing down around

Despite the obvious difference in their approaches to argue, Nicholas Carr, Sherry Trukle and Clive Thompsom have a common focus: The effect of shared information. Nicholas Carr mainly focus on sharing of objective information, the information that is related to science and fact. In the meaning time, Sherry Turkle writes about sharing of subjective information, the personal and emotional messages that we deliver on social media. Clive Thompsom talks about the sharing of both kinds of information. However, their views about sharing of information are totally different. The similarities and conflicts between their arguments can actually help us to compare and crystallize those different points of view on sharing information.

Along with illustrating Rafa’s unhappiness, Herrera also shows the reader how the narrator is mistreated by those above him when he is searching for Rafa. When the narrator asks those in the middle class if they had seen his friend he states, “No one replied.” (53) They only ignored him and treated him as irrelevant. This reveals that those with higher social statuses are not interested in the lives of the those under them. They become too caught up in their own lives and the money that they make to bother being concerned with others. The higher ranked have lost all humanity and become what they are obsessed with. The lower ranked are seen as animals and pests; although, they still have human opinions.

Devereaux has just uncovered a plot that has been hatched against one of the royals. He stumbled upon the information while he was trying to make links with British Intelligence through a spy that he had made connections with during his time in England. He attempts to stamp out the plot while sidestepping double crosses, enemy spies, and murder even as he comes to realize that his supposed colleagues and friends may not be who they seem. He needs to keep his wits about himself if he is to survive the tough intelligence world where even some members of his R Section want him dead. The novel builds to a thrilling and violent climax set on the Liverpool docks aboard a passenger hovercraft.

Peter Carey's novel The True History of the Kelly Gang is a pleasant adaptation of Ned Kelly's narrative that imaginatively illustrates crucial events and interactions that transpired afore and during Ned's time in the Kelly gang. This autobiographical (though fictional) type novel can be argued to give an authentic voice to Ned Kelly's story. In saying this, Carey's novel is chiefly based on Ned's own narrative voice in the Jerilderie Letter. By analysing a passage located between pages 374-375, where two key characters of the novel (Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne) discuss a letter that Ned Kelly had sent off to Mr Cameron (which was never published; thus causing the composition of the Jerilderie Letter) this essay aims to discover how this passage relates to key elements of the novel. This will be done by an analysis of Carey's use of vernacular style language, censorship of language and ungrammatical sentence structure.