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Jasper Jones Craig Silvey

The document provides background information on the novel "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silvey. It summarizes the plot, characters, themes, and setting of the story. Key points include: - The story is set in 1960s rural Australia and focuses on Charlie Bucktin, a quiet 13-year-old boy, and Jasper Jones, an Aboriginal outcast. - One night Jasper seeks Charlie's help after finding the dead body of Laura Wishart in the woods. They dispose of the body and try to cope with what happened. - Other major characters include Eliza Wishart, Laura's younger sister, and Jeffrey Lu, Charlie's best friend who is bullied for his Vietnamese heritage.

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Jasper Jones Craig Silvey

The document provides background information on the novel "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silvey. It summarizes the plot, characters, themes, and setting of the story. Key points include: - The story is set in 1960s rural Australia and focuses on Charlie Bucktin, a quiet 13-year-old boy, and Jasper Jones, an Aboriginal outcast. - One night Jasper seeks Charlie's help after finding the dead body of Laura Wishart in the woods. They dispose of the body and try to cope with what happened. - Other major characters include Eliza Wishart, Laura's younger sister, and Jeffrey Lu, Charlie's best friend who is bullied for his Vietnamese heritage.

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AUTHOR

“Jasper Jones”

second novel 

was completed in early 2008

 was made into the movie 

Craig Silvey 
Reasons
to read
narrative organises and shapes our understanding
of the world

you will test perceptions of your worlds


against those represented in this novel

you will reflect on how texts


portray particular social values
Various themes within the novel
 appearances and perceptions

 innocence and guilt

 courage and fear

 strength of character and personal growth

 racism, stereotyping and prejudice

 deception and honesty

 bullying
style?
They are appropriate to the Australian Gothic
Сharacters
represent
different elements
of small town Corrigan.
Charlie
Bucktin
the protagonist  Jasper Jones Eliza
Laura Wishart's
14-year-old
younger sister
What do we learn
about
…………………?
Jasper Jones
………………………… has a terrible reputation in Corrigan. He’s a Thief, a Liar, a
Thug, a Truant. He’s lazy and unreliable. He’s a feral and an orphan, or as good as. His
mother is dead and his father is no good. He’s the rotten model that parents hold aloft as a
warning: This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient. Jasper Jones is the example of
where poor aptitude and attitude will lead.
In families throughout Corrigan, he’s the first name to be blamed for all manner of
trouble.
In families throughout Corrigan, he’s the first name to be blamed for all
manner of trouble. Whatever the misdemeanor, and no matter how clear
their own child’s guilt, parents ask immediately: Were you with Jasper
Jones? And of course, more often than not, their kids will lie. They nod,
because Jasper’s involvement instantly absolves them. It means they’ve
been led astray. They’ve been waylaid by the devil. And so, as the cases are
closed, the message is simple:
Stay away from Jasper Jones.
Would you call JJ a troublemaker?
Charlie Bucktin a quiet, book loving, 13-year-old boy 

He came into my room with a stack of books and quietly


offered me the very thing I’d wanted all my life: permission
to read whatever I liked from his library. My father’s rows
and stacks of novels had awed me since he taught me to
read, but he always chose the volumes he thought were
appropriate. So it felt important, and it was clear to me that
he thought it was significant too.

To be honest, I had no idea what the hell was


going on. I refused to ask my father, though. I
didn’t want him thinking I wasn’t smart enough.
Jeffrey Lu
Of course, it also means I’m mostly ignored. It’s
worse for Jeffrey Lu, my best and only friend, who is
younger and smaller and, if I’m honest, smarter than
me.
Jeffrey has been moved up a year, and he’s my main
competitor for primacy

Jeffrey’s parents are Vietnamese, so he’s


ruthlessly bullied and belted about. He probably
cops it worse than Jasper. But he takes it all
astonishingly well, which has always eased my
guilt, given that I’m never brave enough to
intervene.
Jeffrey is unflappable.
She weren’t the same as other girls round
town. She was smart, Charlie. Not smart like you. Different. Sort of wise. We
got on real good. She always wanted to come here. She was always on at me.
But I liked to let her. You know how you meet someone and you feel like
you’ve known them all your life? That’s how it was. Real easy. It wasn’t like
those other girls that come here. We never really fooled around much, even
though she were older. She was strange about all that stuff.

Laura Wishart the missing girl


MAD JACK
Mad Jack is a character of much speculation and intrigue for the kids of Corrigan.
No child has actually laid eyes on him. There are full-chested claimants of
sightings and encounters, but they’re quickly exposed as liars. But the tall stories
and rumors all weave wispily around one single irrefutable fact: that Jack Lionel
killed a young woman some years ago and he’s never been seen outside his house
since. Nobody among us knows the real circumstances of the event, but fresh
theories are offered regularly. Of course, the extent and nature of his crimes have
grown worse over time, which only adds more hay to the stack and buries the pin
ever deeper. But as the myth grows in girth, so too does our fear of the mad killer
hidden in his home
Jack Lionel

But the tall stories and rumors all weave wispily around
one single irrefutable fact: that Jack Lionel killed a young woman some years ago
and he’s never been seen outside his house since. Nobody among us knows the real
circumstances of the event, but fresh theories are offered regularly.
Of course, the extent and nature of his crimes have grown worse over time, which
only adds more hay to the stack and buries the pin ever deeper. But as the myth
grows in girth, so too does our fear of the mad killer hidden in his home.
1

2
Corrigan, Western Australia

Jasper Jones
Charlie is excluded by locals because of his Eliza
Bucktin Aboriginal  heritage and rebellious
lifestyle

rs e
sist
fr
ie

Laura
nd

?
s

the missing girl 


Jeffrey Lu Jack Lionel
suspected, mad
Setting

 The scene
 Discovery of the body
 Charlie reaction and
thoughts
Charlie and Jasper have very little in
common and have nothing to do with each
other. But Jasper Jones needs Charlies
help.

Chapter 1
Jasper manages to convince Charlie that he
was not responsible for Laura’s death

They get Laura on the ground and takes


the rope off from around her neck getting
rid of the body

They cope with what happened and get


home early in the morning
 Morning after
 Going to the nets with Jeffrey
(bullying by cricket team and
coach)
 Eliza Wishart
Chapter 2

Nobody’s realised that Laura’s missing


Charlie’s still shocked and feels sick inside
Jeffrey urged Charlie to go talk to Eliza

Jeffery and Charlie decided to go for a walk to


the public cricket nets for some practice
Charlie then starts thinking about how he
should have stood up for her and walk over to
her and start talking to her.

As Charlie was collecting the balls


that flew out of the nets Charlie
notices Eliza 
Who say's this line in in
Chapter 1?

"We owe her the truth, When Jasper and Charlie find the body
right?"
of Laura Wishart, how do they dispose
of it, and what do they do afterwards, to
deal with the traumatic experience?

How is Jasper Who does Jasper believe killed


described ? Laura Wishart?
Guess the character

………..is tall. He’s only a year older than me, but looks a lot
more. He has a wiry body, but it’s defined. His shape and his
muscles have already sorted
themselves out. His hair is a scruff of rough tufts. It’s pretty clear
he hacks at it himself.

Jasper

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