Marele Day has successfully composed distinctive voices through her text through her use of characteristics within the characters Claudia Valentine and Harry Lavender to make her point of view. Marele Day has written the novel in a way so that her own distinctive voice may be interpreted through the protagonist‚ Claudia Valentine‚ although Claudia has her own distinctive voice. Distinctive voices contribute to and create the characteristics of a person’s identity. Two texts which clearly show these
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Claudia Valentines Private Eye business is in a slack period when she receives a call from an old school friend Marilyn Edwards. Claudia learns that Marilyns brother‚ Mark Bannister‚ was found dead at his computer console supposedly of a cardiac arrest. Marilyn doesnt believe the official Police line of death by natural causes and when Claudia starts to dig‚ neither does she. The death is complicated; Mark had a pacemaker‚ and heroin was found in his bloodstream. He was also writing a book; commissioned
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Me and a Madman In the Diary of a Genius‚ Salvador Dali remarked‚ “there is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad" This statement brings up the essence of what qualifies an individual as mad. Madness is a condition prescribed by society‚ a label attributed to an individual from an outside perspective. An individual can never truly be diagnosed as mad. Madness‚ insanity‚ is a completely mental condition and because there is no way to fully follow‚ understand‚ or know how that
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Claudia’s Story : Green Pyjamas Claudia starts telling her story to the other children: Claudia’s parents quarrel a lot until her father decides to take his things and move away to his mother’s house. One night‚ there was a flood of phone calls‚ and for the first time‚ Claudia hears the name Stella‚ her dad’s new girlfriend. After that night‚ Claudia’s dad dare not visit nor come near the house anymore‚ but only talks to Claudia over the phone. On Boxing Day‚ Claudia meets Stella for the first time
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gender‚ the reader is per swayed into assuming the character is a male‚ like all stereotypical hard detectives‚it’s not until the third page has been read that the audience realises that the “hard-boiled” detective is actually a female by the name of Claudia Valentine. This is effective because it challenges the audience’s knowledge of stereotypes and mystery/crime texts‚ this assists with gaining the readers interest pursuing them to read on. Voice is made distinctive by tone‚ language and dialogue
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Claudia says “we had dropped our seeds in our little plot of black dirt like Pecola’s’ father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt”. This simile conveys that Claudia now understands that Pecola’s father impregnated his daughter‚ comparing it to her planting the marigolds. In the next line the author uses a sharp juxtaposition
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Stella‚ the new woman in her father’s life. Claudia finds it difficult to accept Stella at first but despite Stella’s effort to be friendly to her. However‚ one eventful incident changes their relationship. The dinner party to celebrate her father’s birthday breaks the ice between Stella and Claudia. Claudia goes out of her way to make the guests realize how rude they have been to Stella. There are many lessons I have learned from this story. First‚ Claudia is a mature and sensible girl. At the dinner
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In the excerpt from Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively‚ a brother and sister are searching for fossils while their mother waitsaid nearby. Claudia always wants to outdo her brother‚ Gordon‚ at everything he does at their trip to the beach. Lively’s Monday Tiger illustrates that sibling rivalry gets the best out of each person involved. Lively’s use of word choice‚ tone‚ and dialogue shoes readers how the siblings act towards each other and how their mother deals with her children fighting. Claudia’s
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Morrison Compare and contrast Claudia and Pecola in terms of their ability to fight injustice. How does this ability affect them later in the novel? It is not hard to notice the contrast between Claudia’s method to fight injustice and Pecola’s method. Claudia is a fighter and incredibly brave. She will not let the community that she lives in destroy her life. Therefore‚ she speaks up when she considers that something is unfair and wrong. Unlike Claudia‚ Pecola is used to not getting any
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Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ Claudia MacTeer‚ and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is what finishes her‚ she believes that God gives her blue eyes causing her insanity. She doesn’t have many friends other than Claudia and Frieda. Throughout the book we see how Pecola is picked on by other
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