Themes In Ting Silvey

The context of an individual as well as their adolescent experience may be influenced by prejudicial opinions and knowledge. Craig Silvey achieves this through the external factors of setting and time to reveal their transformation of innocence to maturity.
An individual’s context may be influenced by preductal opinions, exposing them to a new reality impacting their adolescent transition to maturity. Silvey achieves this through the characters Jasper and Jeffery who are both exposed to the realities of prejudice. The dialogue “Cong” reveals the racist nature of Corrigan, exposing Jeffery to a racist reality. This resulted in Jeffery gaining resilience and a mature attitude to the situations he was confronted by. Silvey represents this through the defence mechanisms Jeffery has developed in response to his context. Jasper Jones context also …show more content…
Silvey primarily represents this perspective through the character Charlie. Charlie is confronted with disturbing knowledge in many instances. The metaphor “I can’t unfurl from my cocoon when I am good and ready. I’ve been pulled out early and left in the cold” implies Charlie’s feelings towards the discover of the body. The simile “We should be able to run away like frightened kids” further represents Charlie’s reluctance to know. This confrontation contributes to the development of Charlie’s maturity. Silvey achieves this confronting awareness of knowledge using knowledge dichotomy. ““I think the comfort would be thin and hollow. I think the knot of not-knowing would be the worst.” Knowledge dichotomy is used to demonstrate Charlie’s eagerness to obtain knowledge but when the knowledge is obtained, a resistance between Charlie and the discovery of the body is established. Silvey constructs the text with the inclusion of the discovery of the body to reveal the impacts of confronting knowledge in adolescent