Border Crossing Symbols
English Essay Plan
How do the symbols/the way the text ends reinforce Barkers ideas, values, and beliefs in Border Crossing?
Ideas: Children and Violence, Rehabilitation versus punishment, crossing of personal and professional borders, possibility of change.
Symbols: Water, fire, rabbits, chickens, the fox, dreams, Danny’s background, Lindesfarne episode, Danny at the end, ambiguous ending
Water/River Tyne: Possibility of change
Water symbolises uncertainty, power control (How Tom feels with Danny). Description at end also provides this imagery (Did Danny change, or does he still have that control over Tom). River Tyne, literally goes through change/develops (River also symbolises Tom’s change in his life).
Evidence: Bits of blue plastic,
How do the symbols/the way the text ends reinforce Barkers ideas, values, and beliefs in Border Crossing?
Ideas: Children and Violence, Rehabilitation versus punishment, crossing of personal and professional borders, possibility of change.
Symbols: Water, fire, rabbits, chickens, the fox, dreams, Danny’s background, Lindesfarne episode, Danny at the end, ambiguous ending
Water/River Tyne: Possibility of change
Water symbolises uncertainty, power control (How Tom feels with Danny). Description at end also provides this imagery (Did Danny change, or does he still have that control over Tom). River Tyne, literally goes through change/develops (River also symbolises Tom’s change in his life).
Evidence: Bits of blue plastic,