Jasper Jones Study Notes
2. * ‘This late, the architecture is desolate and reached of colour’’ symbolic, suggests of life having been washed out in the town-devoid of colour.
• “She swipes the curtain back, pleased to see me. She even has sunflowers on the windowsill” – Pathetic Fallacy * Miner’s hall – The hall is full of people for the new years fireworks. “There’s an enormous bonfire in the pebbled car park of the Miners hall, a pyramid of old railway sleepers feeding the flame. Against the wall of the hall, there are crates of fireworks”. “Behind the hall they’ve shovelled coals into a long hole”. “People spill out of the hall like wasps from a hive”. Pg 296. * Inside the cottage- “The inside of the cottage is dim. Its strange light the colour of egg yolk. The wallpaper is split and faded. Everything smells of dust and turpentine. On my left is a wall hanging of butterflies with pins through their bodies. They don’t look very colourful. The hall mantle is full of photographs and trinkets and doilies” pg 300 – 301. His furniture is very bad “He gestures towards to ratty coaches by the window” pg 301 * From the outside it is described as “The yard beyond is scruffy and dilapidated. Along the border closest to the river, where the bush meets the property thick thatches of blackberries press through the rusted wire fence. On the other side towards the cottage, I notice a goat tethered to a star picket and lying on its side”. Pg 300. * “He’d come in from the back, ducking through his wire fence and started snooping around.” * The wire fence was there as Jasper described himself invading Lionel’s property, symbolising that Lionel may have some secrecy or something he does not want anyone else to see.
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* “And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles” – Metaphor, relates to Miner’s Hall incident. The town of Corrigan is close knit; therefore they cling onto each other – relating back to barnacles. * Pete Wishart, Laura and Eliza’s father, is probably the most
• “She swipes the curtain back, pleased to see me. She even has sunflowers on the windowsill” – Pathetic Fallacy * Miner’s hall – The hall is full of people for the new years fireworks. “There’s an enormous bonfire in the pebbled car park of the Miners hall, a pyramid of old railway sleepers feeding the flame. Against the wall of the hall, there are crates of fireworks”. “Behind the hall they’ve shovelled coals into a long hole”. “People spill out of the hall like wasps from a hive”. Pg 296. * Inside the cottage- “The inside of the cottage is dim. Its strange light the colour of egg yolk. The wallpaper is split and faded. Everything smells of dust and turpentine. On my left is a wall hanging of butterflies with pins through their bodies. They don’t look very colourful. The hall mantle is full of photographs and trinkets and doilies” pg 300 – 301. His furniture is very bad “He gestures towards to ratty coaches by the window” pg 301 * From the outside it is described as “The yard beyond is scruffy and dilapidated. Along the border closest to the river, where the bush meets the property thick thatches of blackberries press through the rusted wire fence. On the other side towards the cottage, I notice a goat tethered to a star picket and lying on its side”. Pg 300. * “He’d come in from the back, ducking through his wire fence and started snooping around.” * The wire fence was there as Jasper described himself invading Lionel’s property, symbolising that Lionel may have some secrecy or something he does not want anyone else to see.
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* “And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles” – Metaphor, relates to Miner’s Hall incident. The town of Corrigan is close knit; therefore they cling onto each other – relating back to barnacles. * Pete Wishart, Laura and Eliza’s father, is probably the most