21st century multicultural societies. A novel which deals with the serious aspect is ‘Noughts & Crosses’ by Malorie Blackman. This essay will investigate how the writer uses characterisation‚ theme‚ structure and the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism from both points of view. The story is set in a fantasy Britain. The roles of black and white have been reversed and amplified. Noughts are second-class white people who on the poverty line. Crosses are empowered and rich black people
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McGregor is one of the main characters in the novel Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. It is an action packed novel based on a society that has been practicing segregation for decades. The novel is set in a fictional country called Pangaea during the 21st century. Callum deals with many issues including relationships‚ friendships‚ violence‚ alcohol abuse and depression. However‚ the main issues he has to deal with are prejudice and racism. This essay will reveal Callum’s complicated and unlucky
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Title- Noughts and Crosses Genre-Novel Author- Malorie Blackman Date finished- 6/10/2013 The story was about white and black people who were called noughts and crosses. I had trouble finding out what noughts and crosses are‚ but I found that out in prologue after a bit of reading as the pace of the book was very slow. I also kind of had a guess by looking at the book’s cover which displayed a white circle and a cross in black. In the world of noughts and crosses they don’t simply mix and the
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Noughts and Crosses Noughts and Crosses" by Malorie Blackman is a novel which follows the lives and experiences of two characters‚ Callum and Sephy. Throughout the book Blackman deals with a number of issues including relationships‚ alcohol abuse‚ power abuse‚ depression and violence. However‚ the key issues of the book are racism and prejudice. These issues of racism and prejudice are conveyed through the narrative techniques of characterization‚ point of view‚ language‚ structure and setting
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This is further shown when These language techniques influences the reader to pity the Noughts and how they are treated by the Crosses during every day life. In the novel Blackman created her own world to be the opposite of our own and through the pity of the Noughts in the novel the white reader pities the blacks in our society. Setting is important in showing the severity of the racism in the novel. The reader sees that the racism exists but true extent is only shown when Callum gets the
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big glaring barrier between them: Sephy is a Cross‚ Callum is a nought. Society‚ the world‚ their families‚ will never accept them. Sephy is the daughter of Kamal Hadley‚ a successful and important politician who’s manoeuvring his way to the top seat in parliament while his society wife drinks herself to oblivion. She goes to a posh school by chauffeur-driven car and doesn’t really understand the discrimination and prejudice the noughts endure. Callum knows all too well. From being constantly suspected
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NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Teacher’s Pack By Frances Gregory CONTENTS Introduction 3 Overview for Scheme of Work 4 Navigator 5–6 Lesson Plans‚ WS 7–45 Assessment 46 INTRODUCTION English teachers don’t need to be told the enormous value and pleasure of reading whole texts as class readers. Little compares with that feeling when a class are truly engaged in the reading of a really good book. Those moments stay with you forever – indeed‚ they fuel the desire to find
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noughts and crosses is a book written by Malorie Blackman. It is about a friendship between Sephy hadley‚ a cross and daughter of important cross‚ and Callum McGregor‚ a nought. This novel describes an alternative histoiry where humans evolved while Pangae was still intact. Without the barriers to exchange of domesticable animals‚ among other factors‚ the African people gained technological and organized advantage and organizational advantage over the Europeans rather than the other way around
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“Noughts and Crosses” by Malorie Blackman The book is called Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. The beginning is set on a private beach. The two main characters which are also the first characters to be introduced in Chapter 1 are called Callum and Sephy. In this book‚ Crosses (black people) and Noughts (white people) aren’t equal. Crosses have all the power while Noughts are treated like dirt. Callum is a Nought and Sephy is a Cross. In the first chapter Callum entered a new school which
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How does Malorie Blackman create a vivid picture of the bomb and its aftermath in this passage? A shocked atmosphere concludes this chapter with a bombing of Dundale shopping centre in the book noughts and crosses‚ Malorie Blackman makes the aftermath and bombing of the Dundale shopping centre very vivid for the reader by using very interesting and useful word and phases. Firstly‚ Malorie Blackman uses many ominous hints and foreshadowing to create a vivid picture of what was about to happen in
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