Year 12 Standard English( Harry Lavender)

Marele Day has successfully composed distinctive voices through her text through her use of characteristics within the characters Claudia Valentine and Harry Lavender to make her point of view. Marele Day has written the novel in a way so that her own distinctive voice may be interpreted through the protagonist, Claudia Valentine, although Claudia has her own distinctive voice. Distinctive voices contribute to and create the characteristics of a person’s identity. Two texts which clearly show these distinctive voices are “The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender” by Marele Day and “The big bang theory” (Season 1, Episode 10 - The Loobenfeld Decay), directed by Chuck Lorre.

In “the Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender” the distinctive voices of Claudia Valentine and Harry Lavender compared with the distinctive voice of Harry Lavender. However in the text “the Big Bang theory” the humour is generated through the contrast between the distinctive voices of Sheldon Cooper and the distinctive voice of Penny.

Throughout the novel we partly get a sense of Claudia’s distinctive voice through the comparison with Harry Lavender and vice versa.

Claudia Valentine, the protagonist, has a very distinctive voice. Marele Day portrays this by subverting the audience’s preconceptions of Claudia, as the damsel in distress, who is not independent or strong, and needs someone to rescue her. However in reality Claudia is a strong, independent and hard-boiled genre detective.

Marele Day utilized a crime fiction genre to create a unique and strong voice of Claudia Valentine and Harry Lavender. Day employs a first person narrative to both the distinctive voices to involve the responder into the experiences being presented. Claudia valentine is portrayed through distinctive voice as independent and strong female investigator living and working in well renowned city of Sydney. Through Claudia, Marele Day has created a distinct and familiar voice for a character allowing the reader to