How To Write An Internal Monologue

The type of text that I decided to produce is an internal monologue that has been captured over various stages of the Mother’s development and grief of which I would label as a transformation due to the Mother’s transparency and lack of emotion throughout the entire text since the book is primarily focussed on Hannah’s progression. I chose to use multiple moments in time so I could cover more than one emotion produced by the Mother to truly capture how she feels and how she progresses over time rather than a mainly singular emotion for the entire text which is how she is often portrayed in the original book. The purpose of this text is to provide a better understanding of how the Mother may feel and how she may grieve differently to other characters in the book.
Because of the Mother’s portrayal in the book she appears to not care about her family which I believe is not the case. I wanted readers to understand that although she doesn’t show her emotions on the outside her mind is always thinking about the types of things that were in my monologue. My audience for this text would be similar to the book’s audience which is around year 11 and possibly slightly older due to the content and language used. I catered to this audience by using colloquial language where possible and using mild profanity to keep the audience captivated with the text due to it’s drama. The language I used was often colloquial which leads on from Zorn’s style since it was based in Australia. Some examples of Zorn’s colloquial style