![]() ![]() ![]() Understand?” The conjunction of truncated sentences, tone, and slang form an effect that creates a fearful reality for many ethnic minorities. Often subjected to police brutality: Jasper quotes “Bloody hell. As the book is set in a fictional 1960’s rural conservative town, it allows for racial prejudice to seep through the local characters and provides the complexity of belonging and its negative effects. The latter quote accumulates to the racist ideologies instilled in the townspeople as Jasper is of Aboriginal descent it can be inferred that the connotation of the devil has much to do with his skin tone. Jasper Jones is introduced as a scapegoat within the first chapter of the book with the quote “He’s a thief, a thug, a truant.” “They’ve been waylaid by the devil.” The alliteration of the first quote focuses the readers’ attention on a particular section of the text, in this case, the presumptions of Jasper’s nature and personality. ![]() The novel ‘Jasper Jones’ by Craig Silvey delves into the concept of morality and ethics when dealing with the consequences of conformity in ethnic minorities. ![]()
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