Themes: - Manipulation - Control - Dishonesty - Broken Family - Danger - Fear - Secretive - Development - Responsibility - Coming of Age
Settings: - Home - School - Work - Woods - Car - Shops
Characters - Mother – kind hearted, worried, fearful, wanting her son to go back to how he was. - Son – teenager, secretive, led astray, rebel, about to graduate from high school - Workers – who worked with the son - Neighbours – saw the son doing dangerous behaviour ect
Questions: - Why is the mother so scared of her son? - Was he really dangerous? - What is Carver saying about politics?
Other - ‘Kneel down is what I say, Kneel down is what I say, he said, that’s the first reason why.’ Page 126 - Speech plea from mother to her son – Page 126 - Uses him, his, he – this makes the relationship less personal. - Never at all the use of names, only when talking about the neighbours and workers. - In a letter form, hasn’t happened in any other stories in Will you please be quiet please?
Themes:
ReplyDelete- Manipulation
- Control
- Dishonesty
- Broken Family
- Danger
- Fear
- Secretive
- Development
- Responsibility
- Coming of Age
Settings:
- Home
- School
- Work
- Woods
- Car
- Shops
Characters
- Mother – kind hearted, worried, fearful, wanting her son to go back to how he was.
- Son – teenager, secretive, led astray, rebel, about to graduate from high school
- Workers – who worked with the son
- Neighbours – saw the son doing dangerous behaviour ect
Symbols/Motif
- Danger
- Violence
- Concerned Mother
- Stressful mother/son relationship
- Abnormal Behaviour
Questions:
- Why is the mother so scared of her son?
- Was he really dangerous?
- What is Carver saying about politics?
Other
- ‘Kneel down is what I say, Kneel down is what I say, he said, that’s the first reason why.’ Page 126
- Speech plea from mother to her son – Page 126
- Uses him, his, he – this makes the relationship less personal.
- Never at all the use of names, only when talking about the neighbours and workers.
- In a letter form, hasn’t happened in any other stories in Will you please be quiet please?