Relationships And Appearances In Karen Tayleur's Piggy Book

Relationships, changes and appearances can be caused by multiple events and situations dealing with human beings. They can then alter from time to time off what another person has said or what they have done to affect them in their lives. The novel “6” written by Karen Tayleur and the picture book “Piggy Book” by Anthony Browne both go to show the relationships, appearances and how individuals change in their own perception. The novel and picture book not only shows us the issues and problems that people go through but goes on to identify what a person can become and how their relationship has changed once some of these issues and problems arise. Throughout the novel and picture book composers used a variety of language and narrative techniques …show more content…
Friendships and relationships can be closely seen in the two characters Poppy and Sarah. It is shown how much Poppy cares for Sarah in the gift she gets her, “The album had a purple felt cover, and sewn onto it were little charms and my name in yellow felt letters.” ”And finally an angel to watch over you.” The technique shown in this quote is symbolism, which shows the reader how much strength and love Poppy has for her best friend Sarah. Another two characters that have a close relationship with each other is Virginia and Finn a quote to show this is “we are like Romeo and Juliet” said by Virginia which is her trying to compare their relationship to the perfect romantic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This leaves the reader wondering how strong and romantic their relationship must be if she is comparing it to that. Another language technique that Tayleur uses in her novel is a “Where were you? I got bored’ Virginia pouted’ Where is your phone? I rang you like fifty times” This hyperbole of the words “like 50 times” shows how much Virginia cares about Finn and how she expresses her feelings when Finn is not around to talk to …show more content…
An example of this is when Mr Piggott says “But what shall we do?” this rhetorical question makes them feel alone now not knowing what to do without their mother as they had to make their own meal now which took hours and was horrible. Another moment where change was met was when the father and two sons literally turned into pigs, imagery is shown to appeal the readers senses in the quote “They never washed the dishes, They never washed their clothes, Soon the house was a Pigsty” The last moment of change was when Mrs Piggott came back home and Mr Piggott started washing the dishes, did the ironing while the sons made the bed. This is a sign of change as they are now helping the mother around the house and have all become a happy family where the mother is being shown in bright colours now giving herself a personality that a human