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Sephy's Private Beach.
Extract from Page 20:
"It shone like a shattered mirror, each fragment reflecting and dazzling. It never ceased to amaze me just how beautiful the sand and the sea and the gentle breeze on my face could be. My family's private beach was my favourite place in the whole world. Kilometres of coastline that was all ours, with just a couple of signs declaring that it was private property and some old wooden fencing at each end, through which Callum and I had made a gap."
This text helps the reader to establish a vague image of the location in order to imagine the scene with a better understanding. It plants the idea of a calm atmosphere, and sense of freedom from the many problems of life in Pangea. Sephy has been shown coming to this private beach in her times of struggle in order to escape from the haunting ideas that clouded her head, and was able to let her mind drift away, allowing herself to slip into a sense of peace and meditation.
"It shone like a shattered mirror, each fragment reflecting and dazzling. It never ceased to amaze me just how beautiful the sand and the sea and the gentle breeze on my face could be. My family's private beach was my favourite place in the whole world. Kilometres of coastline that was all ours, with just a couple of signs declaring that it was private property and some old wooden fencing at each end, through which Callum and I had made a gap."
This text helps the reader to establish a vague image of the location in order to imagine the scene with a better understanding. It plants the idea of a calm atmosphere, and sense of freedom from the many problems of life in Pangea. Sephy has been shown coming to this private beach in her times of struggle in order to escape from the haunting ideas that clouded her head, and was able to let her mind drift away, allowing herself to slip into a sense of peace and meditation.
Sephy's House.
Extract from Page 28:
"My parents' country house. Seven bedrooms and five reception rooms for four people. What a waste. Four people in such a vast house - four lonely peas rolling about in a can. We were still some distance from it but it rose like an all-seeing giant above us."
This quote helps the reader to establish a firm idea of how large Sephy's house really is. It explains how the house dominates the hillside, making all buildings around it look minimal. It expresses Sephy's ideal of the house being unnecessarily large, and that most of the space provided was not needed. The text shows the way Sephy feels about her lifestyle and helps to portray her ideas on her situation. She believes that both noughts and Crosses should live with the same rights, in a world of peace and equality.
"My parents' country house. Seven bedrooms and five reception rooms for four people. What a waste. Four people in such a vast house - four lonely peas rolling about in a can. We were still some distance from it but it rose like an all-seeing giant above us."
This quote helps the reader to establish a firm idea of how large Sephy's house really is. It explains how the house dominates the hillside, making all buildings around it look minimal. It expresses Sephy's ideal of the house being unnecessarily large, and that most of the space provided was not needed. The text shows the way Sephy feels about her lifestyle and helps to portray her ideas on her situation. She believes that both noughts and Crosses should live with the same rights, in a world of peace and equality.
Extract from Page 30:
"She loved our house as much as I hated it. She called it 'grand'. To me it was like a bad museum - all cold floors and marble pillars and carved stonework which glossy magazines loved to photograph but which no-one with half a gram of sense would ever want to live in."
The text above shows the distaste Sephy has for her home, giving the viewer the image of a large, expensive, yet bland house, like that of a rich, famous persons home, only without all the good bits. It adds the sense of a boring air to the home of the Hadley's, showing their ideals of quantity over quality in order to represent the Crosses views of being the superiors over the noughts, and how they must have more wealth and power than the lesser race.
"She loved our house as much as I hated it. She called it 'grand'. To me it was like a bad museum - all cold floors and marble pillars and carved stonework which glossy magazines loved to photograph but which no-one with half a gram of sense would ever want to live in."
The text above shows the distaste Sephy has for her home, giving the viewer the image of a large, expensive, yet bland house, like that of a rich, famous persons home, only without all the good bits. It adds the sense of a boring air to the home of the Hadley's, showing their ideals of quantity over quality in order to represent the Crosses views of being the superiors over the noughts, and how they must have more wealth and power than the lesser race.
Callum's House.
Extract from page 32:
"There was no hall or passageway with rooms leading off it like in Sephy's house. As soon as you opened our front door, there was our living room with its fifth-hand threadbare nylon carpet and its seventh-hand cloth sofa. The only thing in the room that was worth a damn was the oaken table."
This shown text gives the impression of a cramped rundown old shack, with a minimal number of worn furniture which we usually take for granted. Callum's house gives the scene a sense of a depressive environment thanks to it's poor nature, it installs a feeling of sympathy for Callum in the heart of the reader. This helps for the writer express Callum as the victim of the story and helps him/her to put the reader on his Callum's side. The text, "with its fifth-hand threadbare nylon carpet and its seventh-hand cloth sofa." aids the reader to comprehend just how hard done by Callum's family really is.
"There was no hall or passageway with rooms leading off it like in Sephy's house. As soon as you opened our front door, there was our living room with its fifth-hand threadbare nylon carpet and its seventh-hand cloth sofa. The only thing in the room that was worth a damn was the oaken table."
This shown text gives the impression of a cramped rundown old shack, with a minimal number of worn furniture which we usually take for granted. Callum's house gives the scene a sense of a depressive environment thanks to it's poor nature, it installs a feeling of sympathy for Callum in the heart of the reader. This helps for the writer express Callum as the victim of the story and helps him/her to put the reader on his Callum's side. The text, "with its fifth-hand threadbare nylon carpet and its seventh-hand cloth sofa." aids the reader to comprehend just how hard done by Callum's family really is.