Jasper Jones Analysis
Jasper Jones is a story about a studious, thirteen year old boy, named Charlie Bucktin who lives in a small town, named Corrigan. One night, Charlie is shocked and a little intrigued to see the rebellious and robust, teenage boy, named Jasper Jones at his window, who then leads Charlie to the dead body of Laura Wishart. Saturated with fear and consternation, Charlie has to walk through a part of his life, burdened with this terrible secret, until Charlie and Jasper find the murderer that killed Laura Wishart. The Castle is a story about the bizarre Kerrigan family who live in a small neighbourhood that is right next door to the busy, Tullamarine Airport of Melbourne. When the Kerrigan family find out that their home is to be taken away by the
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Jasper Jones is set in 1960s Australia which was a time where non-white people were the targets of bullying and brutality. Because Jasper is half-Aboriginal, people blamed him for other peoples’ crimes because of their stereotypical thinking, and judged him because of his skin colour. “Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan...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.”(SILVEY, 2017). Children also use Jasper as an excuse for their inconsideration and misbehaviour, even when it is not true. However, The Castle portrays injustice in a different way. The Kerrigan family are treated unjustly, because their land is being taken away by the government, without their consent. The government uses its power over the Kerrigan family to take away the land by force. Another sign of injustice in The Castle, is that the government weighed upon the community rights, who wanted to have an airport expansion, over the Kerrigan family rights to keep the house. The government cannot decide over the community and the Kerrigan family because the government needs to follow it’s own laws and regulations in constitution, in which the rights of a simple family and community can be protected. Justice cannot be weighed on who is more important than others, whether you have white or non-white skin, or live in a simple home or a big
Jasper Jones is set in 1960s Australia which was a time where non-white people were the targets of bullying and brutality. Because Jasper is half-Aboriginal, people blamed him for other peoples’ crimes because of their stereotypical thinking, and judged him because of his skin colour. “Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan...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.”(SILVEY, 2017). Children also use Jasper as an excuse for their inconsideration and misbehaviour, even when it is not true. However, The Castle portrays injustice in a different way. The Kerrigan family are treated unjustly, because their land is being taken away by the government, without their consent. The government uses its power over the Kerrigan family to take away the land by force. Another sign of injustice in The Castle, is that the government weighed upon the community rights, who wanted to have an airport expansion, over the Kerrigan family rights to keep the house. The government cannot decide over the community and the Kerrigan family because the government needs to follow it’s own laws and regulations in constitution, in which the rights of a simple family and community can be protected. Justice cannot be weighed on who is more important than others, whether you have white or non-white skin, or live in a simple home or a big