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    Jasper Jones was my favourite character while I was reading Jasper Jones because he is a strong character. He doesn’t have much family or friends in the book but seams to have a steady life. He had to grow up fast because his father isn’t around much and his mum died. He has to steal to get food and clothes so people think that he is no good and that the children of the town shouldn’t be around him, “He’s the rotten model that parents hold aloft as a warning: This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient

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    The novel, ‘Jasper Jones’, is set in a small country town in outback Australia in the 1960’s. It is taken place in Corrigan Australia with the main characters being Charlie Bucktin, a shy and innocent character, and Jasper Jones, the towns so called troublemaker. They set of at night through the bush to find a girl’s dead body hanging from a tree, from then on their goal is to find the murder. A major feature of the novel is highlighting stereotypes. The key idea of stereotypes has become a common

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    Although seemingly innocent, the small town of Corrigan, where the novel, Jasper Jones, is set, is home to a vast number of lies and secrets, and holds an immense amount of deception and manipulation within its walls. Secrets are a pivotal part of life and the human experience, and Jasper Jones reflects this in a relevant and thought-provoking manner, presenting the ways in which secrets and deceits can alter a person’s life for the worse, and cause emotional damage and trauma to those involved

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    too scared to take small risks, even if the rewards outweigh the risks 20 to 1. Sitting inside all day and fearing your own shadow is what you would be doing if you had no courage. Courage is extremely important to have, and award winning novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey shows it very clearly. So yes, courage is important, but why? It is important to have courage in order to try new things, help others in need, and change the world for the better. Courage is the reason we try new things. You would

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    and place around them. “Jasper Jones a novel written by Craig Silvey”, it is a short story of a boy named Charles Butkins and the events that occurred because he helped Jasper Jones mask the death of Laura Wishart. “Australia by Ania Walwicz”, is attacking the people of Australia in the form of a poem, because of their point of views and attitudes in life. She also hates Australia itself because the people are not welcoming, this is the main point of this poem. In Jasper Jones, the main idea of belonging

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    The Craig Silvey novel ‘Jasper Jones’ tells a story set in the late 1960's about a young man named Charlie Bucktin who lives in Corrigan, a little Australian town in West Australia. Charlie is presented with issues of racial prejudice, shamefulness, and moral dishonesty and is tested to address the idealism of right from wrong ,acknowledgement that the law doesn't generally maintain equality amongst all. The thoughts are depicted through Silvey's use of story traditions which either challenge or

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    The context of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones influences different aspects such as language, values and attitudes within the text by using techniques such as figurative language, metaphors, grammatical aspects and structuring, with many more. This creates context for the story and pushes along the true intentions that Silvey wished to portray helping readers understand the story better. Language in Jasper Jones is a detailed part of the novel, making use of many different techniques throughout the entire

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    cities, small-town life remains a significant part of the country's identity. The resonance of small-town Australia, as depicted in Craig Silvey's novel, Jasper Jones, and Jocelyn Moorhouse's 2015 film, The Dressmaker, provides audiences with insight into the complexities of life in these seemingly close-knit communities. Set in the 1960s, Jasper Jones follows Charlie Bucktin in the Western Australian town of Corrigan, as he navigates his way through a horrendous murder, whilst also confronting the discrimination

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    Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a critically acclaimed novel produced in 2009 and set in 1965. Described by The Monthly as “an Australian To Kill a Mockingbird”, the book deals with a variety of themes in an intriguing and comedic way. The extent to which the themes in Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey mirror the context of production more closely than the context of the setting varies depending on which theme is being discussed. The wide range means that both years are represented in a balanced way.

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    How does Craig Silvey explore the idea of ‘the outsider’ in his novel Jasper Jones? Ostracism is the product of group exclusivity, occurring in all circumstances in which a unified and cohesive faction, family, or society elects to exclude an individual. This occasion for various internal self-inflicted or external, predetermined reasons can determine the character of an individual catalysing a different perception of the value of society and autonomous purpose within that society. The role and struggle

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