Jasper Jones Discrimination Quotes

Craig Silvey novel ‘Jasper Jones’ explores discrimination, cultural inequality and secrets. Jasper Jones novel is about a small town, and an unexpected murder happened that night, Laura Wishart is killed. Jasper Jones and Charlie embarks on an adventure. It is this adventure that allows the exploration of that explores through misjudgement, racism and discrimination. Three aspects of the book that showed discrimination and cultural inequality were the misjudgement and discrimination of Jasper Jones, Racism treatment that affected the Lu’s family. Craig Silvey uses Corrigan to demonstrate small towns are mentally fuelled by gossip. This shows that discrimination, cultural inequality and secrets, can affect people a lot which can cause them to do undesired things. …show more content…
One of these ways is through his characters, Jasper Jones who was a victim in this discrimination act. “Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan. He’s a Thief, a Liar, a Thug, a Truant”. This is indicative of people judging someone they don’t know based on fear, ignorance and rumours. When Charlie and Jasper found Laura Wishart body hanging in the woods, Jasper immediately panics when Charlie suggest that they should tell the police. “Bloody hell. Listen, Charlie, we can’t tell anyone. No way. Specially the police. Because they are gonna say it was me. Straight up. Understand?”. This shows that no matter what, Corrigan will always blame it on him. Jasper Jones tells Charlie how the police officers beat him up for no reason and was also accused for Laura Wishart death. Craig Silvey also demonstrate this topic through the Lu