Noughts and Crosses Noughts and Crosses" by Malorie Blackman is a novel which follows the lives and experiences of two characters‚ Callum and Sephy. Throughout the book Blackman deals with a number of issues including relationships‚ alcohol abuse‚ power abuse‚ depression and violence. However‚ the key issues of the book are racism and prejudice. These issues of racism and prejudice are conveyed through the narrative techniques of characterization‚ point of view‚ language‚ structure and setting
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Dystopian Literature. A dystopia is quite common as a literary subject. It is usually unpleasant‚ with a repressive society and/or strict ruling force‚ and is the flip side to another common literary subject; a utopian society‚ in which everything is perfect to either the inhabitants or/and protagonist. Some stories set in a dystopian universe or ’world’ may seem quite normal or maybe even ’perfect’ at first‚ but eventually the reasons behind that become apparent and become quite unpleasant for
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Noughts and Crosses Analysis Novels help authors to explore a range of important issues in society‚ which Malorie Blackman clearly portrays through Noughts and Crosses. This novel follows the lives and experiences of two characters‚ Callum and Sephy. Throughout the book Blackman deals with a number of key issues including racism and prejudice‚ love and friendship and lastly‚ violent and peaceful protest. These themes are identified through different layers of meaning of her writing using textual
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Title- Noughts and Crosses Genre-Novel Author- Malorie Blackman Date finished- 6/10/2013 The story was about white and black people who were called noughts and crosses. I had trouble finding out what noughts and crosses are‚ but I found that out in prologue after a bit of reading as the pace of the book was very slow. I also kind of had a guess by looking at the book’s cover which displayed a white circle and a cross in black. In the world of noughts and crosses they don’t simply mix and the
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Callum McGregor is one of the main characters in the novel Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. It is an action packed novel based on a society that has been practicing segregation for decades. The novel is set in a fictional country called Pangaea during the 21st century. Callum deals with many issues including relationships‚ friendships‚ violence‚ alcohol abuse and depression. However‚ the main issues he has to deal with are prejudice and racism. This essay will reveal Callum’s complicated
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Title: Boys Don’t Cry Author: Malorie Blackman Type: Novel Date: 9th April‚ 2013 The novel Boys Don’t Cry is about a boy called Dante who has a perfect life and is waiting for his A-level test results to see whether or not he can be accepted into his dream college. One day the doorbell rings and his ex-girlfriend Mel‚ shows up pregnant with his baby. The novel is showing that the mental strength of men is higher than that of females‚ so that is why the title is ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ as his ex-girlfriend
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Comparing noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman to Romeo and Juliet Noughts and Crosses is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Noughts & Crosses is a modern-day tale set in an alternative world where you are either a ’Cross’ with dark skin or a ’nought’ with white skin. It is a book about race‚ power and truth. In this book Sephy (Persephone) is a cross and Callum her best friend and soon to be lover Callum is a nought In some ways the book is very similar to Romeo and Juliet
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noughts and crosses is a book written by Malorie Blackman. It is about a friendship between Sephy hadley‚ a cross and daughter of important cross‚ and Callum McGregor‚ a nought. This novel describes an alternative histoiry where humans evolved while Pangae was still intact. Without the barriers to exchange of domesticable animals‚ among other factors‚ the African people gained technological and organized advantage and organizational advantage over the Europeans rather than the other way around
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will be on the father from“Boxing Day” and the father from “202 Checkmates‚”In the book “Insurrections: Stories‚” by Rion Amilcar Scott. When it comes to these two fathers‚ they both tend to talk about the past and have had a strong passion for their hobbies; however‚ their father’s hobbies affect their relationship with their families differently. One similarity that the father from “Boxing Day” and the father from“202 Checkmates” have in common is that they both tend to talk about the past. In
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CHESS This Knight in the corner controls just two squares. Center occupation and center control are the two principles of chess strategy which underlay almost all popular chess openings. White would like to occupy the squares d4 and e4 with his pawns‚ like so: ...while Black’s chess opening strategy is to occupy both d5 and e5 with his own pawns: Both players are also trying to prevent their opponent from achieving his strategic goal (so‚ in most chess openings‚ neither player actually achieves
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