Jasper Jones Quotes

The longing for something to pick you up when you’re at your lowest. This is what the lost generation was wanting during the time of World War I. In the book The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a man who has fought in the war, and hurt himself disabling him to have to ability to reproduce, causing him to be at a loss with his masculinity and manhood. This has caused him to become a part of the lost generation. He longs for the flapper known as Lady Brett Ashley, but she will not accept him for the man he is due to him not being able to satisfy her own needs. This shows that love is an unattainable aspect for Jake Barnes who longing for Brett to be his.

Many writers explore the notion that cultural differences may inflict feelings of disconnection for their central characters. This is shown in the two texts ‘Neighbours’ and ‘Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram’, as both protagonists struggle to cope with their newly exposed environment. Despite this, we learn that it can be resolved through the acceptance of one another, yet others may remain to dissociate themselves from society.

It is crucial that we study Australian Narratives as it creates insights into events we may have not explored. This is evident in the novel "Crow Country" written by Kate Constable. It teaches us about Aboriginal beliefs and spirituality, Australia's History and respect, as we experience what it feels like to live in rural Australia, creating an understanding about Aboriginal people. Therefore, through a close read and study of "Crow Country", readers are able to learn new and important things about our past and present, showing that it is crucial to study Australian Narratives.

Courage means to go out of your way to face your fears. The book Jasper Jones displays many examples of courage throughout the book. The book Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a book about a mystery. The main Charlie is awaken by the knock of Jasper Jones on his window, later that night they find something that shocks them both. They have found a girl by the name of Laura Wishart hanging from a tree near where they usually hang out.

The Novel, Jasper Jones, is a coming of age story, written by Craig Silvey, the basis of the story is about two teenage boys, Jasper Jones and Charlie Bucktin; One late summer night, Jasper Jones comes to Charlie’s window and asks Charlie to follow him. Jasper proceeds to take Charlie to the Dead Body of Laura Wishart, leaving one question in the reader’s mind; If possible to turn back time, would Charlie close his window to Jasper Jones?

Racism is heavily present during the 1960’s in the fictitious town of Corrigan, Australia. Throughout the novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey the character Jasper Jones is used to demonstrate the presence of racism and discrimination in Australia, with the setting of Corrigan during the 1960’s being used as a representation of a small rural town obsessed with appearances. Silvey uses setting to educate the racism that was present during the 1960’s in Australia through the use of first person narration and characters.

At first he was a young, smart thirteen boy, who took his privileges for granted. When he saw Laura’s body, he had to quickly mature and rise to the occasion to help Jasper. This helped Charlie to see the evil in the world and complicated his view of right and wrong. Seeing Jasper’s difficult life and everything he had to go through made Charlie think about himself and all the privileges he has. From the start of the novel, Charlie’s maturity and intelligence deepens. This causes Charlie to willingly help Jasper find out who killed Laura. Another important character is Jasper Jones. From an early age, Jasper has had to raise himself. His mother died in a car accident and his father is always drunk and incapable of taking care of him. Jasper’s maturity helps him to be level-headed in situations that would get a reaction from others. For example, when Jasper saw Laura hanging from the tree and choking, he tried to save her. Then, he ran and got Charlie to help him. Some people in a similar situation would have panicked, but due to Jasper’s maturity, his reactions are mostly sensible. A change does occur when Jasper finds out that Jack Lionel is his grandfather. In the beginning, Jasper allowed Corrigan’s lies and rumors to taint his view of the situation, and he immediately was set on proving Lionel guilty. This changes when he finds out the truth about Laura’s death and his relationship with Jack Lionel. These two important

In conclusion we are very fortunate country that others envy but like all countries, we have a dark side. This dark side is unleashed in "Tri" by Franc Echin and in "Fifties Australia" by Philip Knightly. The stories both share some of the racism that is Australia's history. These texts do not exaggerate the horror of racism as we have all seen or know individuals that suffer racism, so racism must be changed from Australia to improve our

Imagine being too scared to try anything new. Imagine being too scared to take small risks, even if the rewards outweigh the risks 20 to 1. Sitting inside all day and fearing your own shadow is what you would be doing if you had no courage. Courage is extremely important to have, and award winning novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey shows it very clearly. So yes, courage is important, but why? It is important to have courage in order to try new things, help others in need, and change the world for the better.

Courage helps us everyday. It is important to have because it can help you try new things and it can help with many other things. In Jasper Jones, Charlie helps Jasper by going with him to the glade. “Jasper doesn’t respond. He just turns and sets off. I follow.” (Silvey 3) Charlie has many moments where he uses courage and most of the time it helps him or others. He uses it when he goes with Jasper to the glade, when him and Jasper put Laura’s body in the river, and when he goes to Jack’s house.

It is important to be courageous to show people the true braver and how far people will go for something. In the book Jasper Jones. Charlie and his friends had several courageous acts. One these courageous acts that stood out to me the most was when Charlie decided to help jasper so he wouldn’t get into trouble. This is courageous because it shows the risk that Charlie is willing to take for someone he doesn’t even know.

Do you ever read a book and that one character just reaches through the pages and connects with you? Well this is the exact thing that happened to me when I was reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch is a passionate and fighting character in this story, I chose Mr.Finch to do my analysis over because he is a character that I connect with. Atticus Finch is willing to do anything for the people he loves and cares about. In my character analysis I will be showing this be giving evidence and quotes.

Atticus Finch is a lawyer in Maycomb County. He took a stand for Tom Robinson during the trial against Mayella Ewell. Despite him knowing that he is going to lose the case, he still has the courage to take a stand for him. Because of his great acts, it makes sense for Atticus Finch to take stand for Tom Robinson.

Mr A. O Neville was The legal guardian and protector of every Western Australian Aboriginal. He had to power to remove any mixed European and Aboriginal decent from their family from anywhere in Western Australia. His job was to protect, instead he called the aboriginals an “unwanted third race”. He sees nothing wrong with the white mans politics of taking the children away from their families and forcing them to give up on their own heritage. For 25 years Neville was in charge of enforcing the governments policy for removing aboriginal children in Western Australia. Mr Neville’s character is a stuck up, uncaring man, who believed as well as concluded that he was just doing his rightful job, when in fact he was removing generation after generation of children, who grew up without

Australian literature has been put into the shadows for too long and now is time to make a change. Lauren Jericho writes on how more Australian novels must be read and given more credit in the Australian society. Australian literature has suffered neglect but more recently authors such as Ruth Park and Kate Grenville have brought to light different views of fictional literature that have not been evident before. Younger people in the modern society are neglecting these brilliant resources and are becoming numb to the real history of their own country. More recently this literature has shown dark parts of the Australian history that has not been known such as aboriginal massacres, racism and people living in the slums.