![]() ![]() It’s a novel worth buying because it will be re-read in summers to come, and surely grow to be an Australian classic. Parents and their teenagers will delight in the nervous trials of Charlie’s romantic escapades, feel outraged by Charlie’s tough, tempestuous mother, and be touched by the gorgeous friendship between Charlie and Jeffrey. Jasper Jones is worthy of a place on your bookshelf because of its broad appeal. The racism that Jasper and Jeffrey experience is enough to make your chest hurt and your eyes sting. It’s Charlie’s brains and books in a town of miners and tradespeople, Jasper’s Aboriginality and Jeffrey’s Asian heritage that make Corrigan nervous. The novel’s three central characters, Jasper, Charlie, and his best-friend Jeffrey Lu, a Vietnamese immigrant, are all feared for their difference. There are sections so tightly plotted you’ll be turning the pages with feverish anticipation, constantly asking: Who killed Laura Wishart?īeyond the exciting plot details, Jasper Jones is a novel about fear. Silvey writes with a kind of bravado that’ll have you gripped. It’s a combination of the childish honesty of Scout Finch and the teen angst of Holden Caulfield that gives the novel such a powerful voice. It is set during a hot summer in 1965 in a small West Australian town, Corrigan, and narrated by thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin. Silvey’s first-person narration is well suited to the coming-of-age themes. Corrigan is jolted by the disappearance of Laura Wishart, with a climate of fear and mistrust as thick as the summer heat Charlie constantly complains about. He has become involved in the disposal of a murdered young woman, after Jasper Jones – a misunderstood Indigenous teen – enlisted his help. Rebellious, mixed-race, and solitary, Jasper is for Charlie a distant. The narrator is Charlie Bucktin, a bookish teenager who is in a sticky situation. Its Jasper Jones, an outcast in the small Western Australian mining town of Corrigan. Jasper Jones is set in the 1960s, in fictional Corrigin, a small-minded country town. Charlie reveals, Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan. Jasper is a half Aboriginal boy who is the outcast and scapegoat of the town. Not bad for a guy in his twenties who grew up on an orchid farm in Dwellingup. The character Jasper Jones experiences continuous discrimination from the people of Corrigan simply because of his race. In 1969, Charlie Bucktin is a 14-year-old boy living in the fictitious rural town of Corrigan, based on the real rural town Corrigin in Western Australia.Charlie spends his days with his best friend Jeffrey Lu, a Vietnamese boy who shares Charlie's love of intellectual banter, and deals stoically with the constant race-hate inflicted on him and his family. It’s a best-seller, and it’s currently being made into a film. It’s the impressive second novel from local author Craig Silvey. If you haven’t read Jasper Jones yet, I recommend that you do.
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