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Jasper Jones Setting Analysis Questions

The document provides 6 questions about the setting of the novel "Jasper Jones" and how it relates to the story's themes. It asks how the small town aspect develops themes around power corruption and how the climate creates tension. It also questions how the 1965 time period impacts the townspeople's mentality and themes of inhumanity. Additionally, it asks which characters find the glade important and how the bush contrasts with the town to illustrate themes of truth vs lies and lost innocence.

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Jasper Jones Setting Analysis Questions

The document provides 6 questions about the setting of the novel "Jasper Jones" and how it relates to the story's themes. It asks how the small town aspect develops themes around power corruption and how the climate creates tension. It also questions how the 1965 time period impacts the townspeople's mentality and themes of inhumanity. Additionally, it asks which characters find the glade important and how the bush contrasts with the town to illustrate themes of truth vs lies and lost innocence.

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Jasper Jones Setting Analysis Questions

Answer the following questions about the setting of the novel.


1. Corrigan is a small town. How does this aspect of setting help Silvey
to develop the key theme the corrupting nature of power?
2. How does the climate of Corrigan create tension in the novel?
3. The novel is set in the summer at the end of 1965. Explain how time
is important to our understanding of the mentality of the people of
Corrigan. How does time help Silvey to develop the key theme
mans inhumanity to man?
4. Which characters is the glade in the bush important to? For each
character explain WHY the glade is important.
5. Identify ways that the bush contrasts with the town of Corrigan.
Explain what this contrast helps the reader to understand about the
two key themes; the boundary between truth and lies and loss
of innocence.
6. How is Charlies Room similar to his father Wess study? What role
do these environments play in the lives of each character?

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