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Peaches are used to gauge Charlies bravery but also are symbolic of something rotten/beautiful/
1. P5 The rarest and most revered feat is to snatch a peach by the flank of the cottage like a zombies hand bursting from the grave' (quote demonstrates fear and immaturity). At the end of the book Charlie does manage to snatch up quite a few peaches- this shows he has matured

2. Peaches also represents the theme of appearance VS reality because peaches can look beautiful/normal/perfect but be rotten on the inside (like many of the characters in the book)

3. p 346 Jasper is away picking peaches saving up money for Laura- what do you think Craig Silvey is trying to say here?? It represents that Jasper is a brave character- to him picking peaches is no big deal.

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Jasper discovers the word “sorry” written in two different places: on the tree where Laura died, and on the side of a car on Mad Jack Lionel’s property. Jasper believes that this proves that Jack is responsible for Laura’s death, but in the end, he realizes that the repetition of the words is only a coincidence. Jack wrote “sorry” on the car because he blames himself for killing Rosie Jones, Jasper’s own mother. Eliza, not Jack, wrote “sorry” on the tree, because she blames herself for Laura’s death. Charlie often wonders what “sorry” accomplishes. On one hand, verbal apologies communicate sympathy and regret from the guilty party to the offended party. Yet there is something shallow and unsatisfying about apologies of this kind, he acknowledges. “Sorry” can never entirely repair the damage caused by a crime. Ultimately, the word “sorry” symbolizes the inadequacy of remorse and redemption in the novel. Characters try to forget and atone for their crimes, but their efforts are never entirely successful. What’s done is done, and no amount of apologies or tears can change this.

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This quote represents how Charlie Bucktin is scared to be bullied for being an outsider. This quote also shows how Craig Silvey uses juxtaposition between Charlie Bucktin and Jeffrey Lu.

[Jeffrey is] ruthlessly bullied and belted about [at school]. But he takes it all astonishingly well, which has always eased my guilt given that I'm never brave enough to intervene. P.9
It also indicates that Charlie isn't brave enough to stand up for Jeffrey and just becomes a bystander to the bullying. The bullying of Jeffrey represents the theme of racism because Jeffrey being Vietnamese, Corrigan only accepts people's physical capability, and if they are white.

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Diction:                            Silvey effectively uses diction to position the audience to view Jasper as illiterate, lacks vocabulary, as well as use of swearing. This is evident through Jaspers dialogue seen in the book. His colloquial language "I bin", "I tole you" further reinforcing that Jasper Is Illiterate and lacks education/vocabulary. Thus successfully positioning the audience to view Jasper as illiterate and uneducated. 

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Diction:                            Silvey effectively uses diction to position the audience to view Jasper as illiterate, lacks vocabulary, as well as use of swearing. This is evident through Jaspers dialogue seen in the book. His colloquial language "I bin", "I tole you" further reinforcing that Jasper Is Illiterate and lacks education/vocabulary. Thus successfully positioning the audience to view Jasper as illiterate and uneducated. 

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Aleks and Julian

Understanding, Innocence, and Sympathy

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"My mother is the most sarcastic person in the universe. My father calls it Droll Wit, but I think its more or less an opportunity to get up my 🤬 without appearing unreasonable"

Charlie on the way his mother speaks

Sarcasm is known as the lowest form of wit, "Droll Wit", meaning 'dry humour' is an excuse made my Charlie's father. From the last sentence, "...more or less an opportunity to get up my 🤬 without appearing unreasonable." This shows that Charlie analyses his mother on the way she speaks and acts towards Charlie. This quote acknowledges that Charlie is detecting his mothers attitudes in the way she speaks and her attitudes towards not only Charlie, but her husband too. Charlie analysing his mother represents the theme of appearances VS  reality as it is not very lady-like to speak like that.

- jelena

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I think that the note i got, ("he stands up, tall and intimidation. He glares with real anger.") I think that this is characterisation because the character is feeling anger and trying to intimidate the other person.

Alex Self

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"there's a paper wasp. right there....my fear spreads like a dollop of molasses' this quote standalone has little representation however the repeated mentioning of insects and correlating them to fear show that this is more than just the mention of insects. one of the main themes of the novel is Fear along with bravery, coming of age and scape goat each of which are secondarily represented and fear is represents through Charlies extreme phobia of wasps bugs and anything that flies, Brodie kettles

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"A jagged piece of iron digging into my side" this is a met 

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"A jagged piece of iron digging into my side" this is a met 

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Silvey used a metaphor to position the audience to engage themselves in the real-life situation unfolding in the Wisharts family. He does this well using the phrase “shut in a jar” which means; the secret of sexual misconduct towards the daughters by Pete Wishart, will never be exposed to the community of Corrigan. This displays a theme of how bad criminals are sometimes never convicted of their offences towards innocent people and get let off when they deserve a harsh punishment.

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Silvey used a metaphor to position the audience to engage themselves in the real-life situation unfolding in the Wisharts family. He does this well using the phrase “shut in a jar” which means; the secret of sexual misconduct towards the daughters by Pete Wishart, will never be exposed to the community of Corrigan. This displays a theme of how bad criminals are sometimes never convicted of their offences towards innocent people and get let off when they deserve a harsh punishment.

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"The secret has stayed with the Wisharts, sealed shut in a jar, locked in a dusty cupboard."

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It feels as though I'm inhabited by a teeming metropolis of insects, trailing up and down my limbs and my neck. Burrowing under my skin. And they won't be shuddered or away. p.326

At this point of the book, Charlie has learnt that Jack has had nothing to do with Laura's murder. However using his intuition, he was able to notice that Eliza had been hiding something and that something would be revealed once she had finally led him and Jasper to the tree. He knew it couldn't be good because there was no good reason for Laura's murder, it probably would've been more comforting to Charlie to know there was no reason and that it was just some psycho but Charlie needed to grow up. The insects represent fear as he's about to face something he doesn't want to. This positions the audience to believe something bad might happen or be revealed, telling us, the audience that Charlie is feeling uncomfortable and afraid whilst provoking a higher sense of mystery which begs the audience/us to ask the question that was/we asked at the start of the book and throughout; who killed Laura Wishart and why?

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Charlie and Jasper talk about courage in superheroes and if superman is courageous or not. After the argument Charlie reads a book with the quote Courage is a resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. The quote means that fear doesn't go away and courage means you conquer or ignore that fear.  It is only when fear becomes obsessive, and we allow fear to control us, that fear becomes a problem.

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'He's had real actual sex. More than once' (Charlie referring to Warwick Trent)

As Charlie is naïve and innocent he is very unaware when it comes to sex so it comes as a shock when Charlie finds out that Warwick Trent has sex more than one time. This is reiterated throughout the whole book as Charlie's encounters with many real world problems like when he found out about Laura's death and his mothers affair. This is a use of diction as Silvey's choice of wording allows the reader to understand Charlie's stance. Diction allows you understand a characters characteristics as this short extract shows you how Charlie is a very shy person.

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"who must have wanted to scratch and burn that word into her skin like a tattoo". Charlie questioning himself on what he found on her body.

jacob

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Quotes "I got somethink real to be afraid of" and "I know you unnerstand what I bin saying" in the book, said by Japer Jhones, show how jasper is not very educated and how and he may be used to more 'Australian' slang, as he probably didn't go to school. By jasper saying Somethink, unnerstand and bin we can infer that he doesn't really take much pride in the way he portrays himself. It also shows us how different jasper is compared to Charlie.

Jake And Vincentt

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'Superman fears nothing because outside a few very specific circumstances where he might encounter some stupid rock, nothing can possibly do him in. Batman has the same vulnerability as the rest of us, so he has the same fears as us. That's why he is the most courageous: because he can put those aside and fight on regardless. My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up'
- Charlie (p.54)

Craig Silvey uses aesthetic features like representation to position the audience to understand the important issues in the book through a subtle prompt. The quote above utilises superheroes as a motif. The sentence 'the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up', in the context of superheroes can also be contextualised to the town of Corrigan and the situation between Jasper and Charlie about going to the police about Laura Wishart or keeping it a secret. The sentence in the quote 'he can put those fears aside and fight on regardless', when Charlie says this he is relating this to him being afraid of the predicament with Laura Wishart. This quote can be attached to the theme of ' Understanding, innocence and sympathy'.
- Kharli and Amelia

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“He’s had real actual sex. More than one” (Charlie referring to Warwick Trent) This quote is symbolised as Diction as it shows the audience who Warwick Trent is as he is still a child and having sex. And it shows charlies innocence when he realises children have sex too. This tells the audience Charlie has lots to learn about the world and how some children take up aspects of the adult life.  

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“He’s had real actual sex. More than one” (Charlie referring to Warwick Trent) This quote is symbolised as Diction as it shows the audience who Warwick Trent is as he is still a child and having sex. And it shows charlies innocence when he realises children have sex too. This tells the audience Charlie has lots to learn about the world and how some children take up aspects of the adult life.  