Tom Brannan
Extended response - The Story of Tom Brannan is a typical teen genre novel, discuss.
The Story of Tom Brennan by J.C Burke is a typical teen genre novel. This is depicted through the concept of characters coming of age, themes such as drink driving and relationships and romance which teenagers understand and relate to as well as language techniques such as colloquial language in which the responders use.
Burke uses a number of different themes in her novel The Story of Tom Brannan to explore the concept of Teen Genre. In specific, underage drinking is a theme explored through the start of the novel in which majority of teenagers would be able to relate to. To explore the concept of underage drinking Burke uses the celebration of Tom’s footy team making it out of the sudden deaths round. There was alcohol at the party and some were drinking underage. “Sheridan and Nicole, two girls from my year were screeching songs from The Mikado and were totally pissed.” Underage drinking relates to many teenagers today and would relate to many of the responders of this novel as they would be the same age as Tom or even younger and would be influenced to do it or at least know friends that have been underage drinking.
Another theme depicted in Burke’s novel The Story of Tom Brannan to emphasise that it is a teen genre novel is relationships and romance. All throughout the novel the concept of relationships and romance between characters is explored having both gay and straight couples, brake ups and even the concept of cheating is seen in the novel. Of these concepts at least one is going to relate with the responder as they will have been through the same thing and understand what the characters are going through. Relationships and romance is a huge part of Burke’s novel and is how Tom’s problems started and how he overcomes them. For example Daniel had the accident as he was angry Claire broke up with him, although he was drunk the effect that the relationship between him
The Story of Tom Brennan by J.C Burke is a typical teen genre novel. This is depicted through the concept of characters coming of age, themes such as drink driving and relationships and romance which teenagers understand and relate to as well as language techniques such as colloquial language in which the responders use.
Burke uses a number of different themes in her novel The Story of Tom Brannan to explore the concept of Teen Genre. In specific, underage drinking is a theme explored through the start of the novel in which majority of teenagers would be able to relate to. To explore the concept of underage drinking Burke uses the celebration of Tom’s footy team making it out of the sudden deaths round. There was alcohol at the party and some were drinking underage. “Sheridan and Nicole, two girls from my year were screeching songs from The Mikado and were totally pissed.” Underage drinking relates to many teenagers today and would relate to many of the responders of this novel as they would be the same age as Tom or even younger and would be influenced to do it or at least know friends that have been underage drinking.
Another theme depicted in Burke’s novel The Story of Tom Brannan to emphasise that it is a teen genre novel is relationships and romance. All throughout the novel the concept of relationships and romance between characters is explored having both gay and straight couples, brake ups and even the concept of cheating is seen in the novel. Of these concepts at least one is going to relate with the responder as they will have been through the same thing and understand what the characters are going through. Relationships and romance is a huge part of Burke’s novel and is how Tom’s problems started and how he overcomes them. For example Daniel had the accident as he was angry Claire broke up with him, although he was drunk the effect that the relationship between him