The novel username Evie written by Joe Sugg is a wonderful story about a Evie’s journey from being bullied and alone to fitting in. I believe the 3 main issues in the novel are technology and how in my context its futuristic, bullying and how the author’s purpose was to represent bullying as immoral and family ties also how the visual techniques in the novel showed family in no importance. In my essay I looked into how purpose, context and visual techniques shaped my response.
Technology in the novel Username Evie is very futuristic and is also represented as worthy and unworthy. Looking at the authors context the reader will discover that he is a big you tuber and this would of course lead him to represent technology in a positive light, but also looking at my context the idea of a technological world is quite futuristic. Visual techniques help to build my response by using symbolic codes. On pages 50 and 51 the technological …show more content…
The response I got about the issue was that is it immoral. My response was shaped by my personal context. In my context being bullied was a horrible thing and a very hard thing to deal with. It’s a very big problem throughout society. I also believe that it was the authors purpose to make his audience despise the bullying. He also helped build the audiences response by using visual techniques. Sugg did this by using lots of cold and dull colours when Evie was getting bullied. When Evie was really miserable she would sit in the fridge, this shows her cold emotional state as well as visually showing the reader the cold colours to help shape a sad response. Fitting in as a social group is also a big issue in the novel. When Evie is alone cold dull colours are shown and Evie expresses how depressed she is feeling. In the technological world when Evie is fitting in the reader starts to feel a lot better for Evie. When Evie is fitting in she is shown as a strong independent