Tom Brennan Analysis
English Essay!
English Essay!
In the book, ‘The story of Tom Brennan’, the author J.C.Burke, creates a successful novel portraying the life of a teenager and the daily routines that they are faced with throughout their world. In this book the teenager, Tom Brennan, is faced with many obstacles including the party and playing football. While there are many negative incidents that Tom faces, he is not alone. Some positive ideas include support and help of family, always being behind his back, a renewed sense of self and creating new relationships, especially a girlfriend. Techniques used to express these ideas are mostly dialogue, imagery, and flashbacks. Through these ideas, the readers experience the successfulness that J.C.Burke has written. …show more content…
Tom is growing up, maturing, and forgetting his past in order to focus on his current and future life. Many of the flashbacks are about negative situations or moments, an example is showing the reader how it came to happen that Fin is in a wheelchair and that Daniel is in gaol. As the readers progress into the book, flashbacks give them information of how it was like before the incident, quoting, ‘I wanted to be back home having a barbie. Having our normal Australia day.’(pg 5) Flashbacks is a useful technique used as it mixes the past with the present and gives the extra information that is needed in order to understand the book. This technique is one of the ways that had made J.C.Burke’s book, ‘The story of Tom Brennan’ so …show more content…
A negative incident is that of the car crash, ‘the night it happened I didn’t get to the hall before eight thirty.’ This is the beginning of the incidence that had happened at the hall. (pg 37-48) in this part, imagery was the main technique, filling the reader’s mind with pictures and scenes of the events. Imagery is very effective in this scene as it’s a significant event. ‘That night I had walked……Matt was waving and shouting out of his window.’ This scene is very good as it gives the readers curiosity and wanting more to know what is going to happen on the next Flashback. Most of the imagery that is effective and well-presented is in the flashback; most of the exciting scenes and great parts of the book are in the flashback, mixed with the use of imagery creating a unique mix of techniques. ‘Daniel!’ I screamed……police sirens came in the distance….’it’s okay Fin, it’s okay.’ (78-82) this is where the last of the incident occurred, giving a shocking load of imagery and detailed sentences about the crash and the wreckage found. Through the use of imagery, this novel is a successful piece of J.C.Burke’s
English Essay!
In the book, ‘The story of Tom Brennan’, the author J.C.Burke, creates a successful novel portraying the life of a teenager and the daily routines that they are faced with throughout their world. In this book the teenager, Tom Brennan, is faced with many obstacles including the party and playing football. While there are many negative incidents that Tom faces, he is not alone. Some positive ideas include support and help of family, always being behind his back, a renewed sense of self and creating new relationships, especially a girlfriend. Techniques used to express these ideas are mostly dialogue, imagery, and flashbacks. Through these ideas, the readers experience the successfulness that J.C.Burke has written. …show more content…
Tom is growing up, maturing, and forgetting his past in order to focus on his current and future life. Many of the flashbacks are about negative situations or moments, an example is showing the reader how it came to happen that Fin is in a wheelchair and that Daniel is in gaol. As the readers progress into the book, flashbacks give them information of how it was like before the incident, quoting, ‘I wanted to be back home having a barbie. Having our normal Australia day.’(pg 5) Flashbacks is a useful technique used as it mixes the past with the present and gives the extra information that is needed in order to understand the book. This technique is one of the ways that had made J.C.Burke’s book, ‘The story of Tom Brennan’ so …show more content…
A negative incident is that of the car crash, ‘the night it happened I didn’t get to the hall before eight thirty.’ This is the beginning of the incidence that had happened at the hall. (pg 37-48) in this part, imagery was the main technique, filling the reader’s mind with pictures and scenes of the events. Imagery is very effective in this scene as it’s a significant event. ‘That night I had walked……Matt was waving and shouting out of his window.’ This scene is very good as it gives the readers curiosity and wanting more to know what is going to happen on the next Flashback. Most of the imagery that is effective and well-presented is in the flashback; most of the exciting scenes and great parts of the book are in the flashback, mixed with the use of imagery creating a unique mix of techniques. ‘Daniel!’ I screamed……police sirens came in the distance….’it’s okay Fin, it’s okay.’ (78-82) this is where the last of the incident occurred, giving a shocking load of imagery and detailed sentences about the crash and the wreckage found. Through the use of imagery, this novel is a successful piece of J.C.Burke’s