Essays on Jasper Jones

Craig Silvey’s Australian novel Jasper Jones stresses the importance of truth and justice in formulating human experiences, shaping understandings of oneself and world. It highlights that events aren’t always positive; justice isn’t dealt out fairly, and truth can be a burden. Silvey suggests that people’s...

Australian Culture and Jasper Jones – Essay‘Jasper Jones’ by Craig Silvey is a semi-realistic representation of the social commentary and culture of Australian society in the 1960s. The distinct novel demonstrates the harsh climate of xenophobia, cultural stereotyping, and destructive racism that existed, as well...

Justice in society is the ultimate destination for those who wish to uphold the truth; however, morality is contradicted by an individual’s choice to be uninvolved when personal serenity is at stake. The novel Jasper Jones upholds this idea through the portrayal of silent bystanders...

Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey is a gothic bildungsroman novel, which is set in the 1960s. This specific time shows how Aboriginal people were often targets of bullying and violence in the small Australian town Corrigan. This tales explores how the protagonist Charlie Bucktin...

People are judgmental of others who differ from society’s norm. 1960’s Australia is represented in Craig Silvey’s novel “Jasper Jones”, which explores the concept of racism and the behaviours of Corrigan’s residents who have been exposed to limited diversity. Silvey’s characters Jeffrey Lu and Jasper...

Jasper Jones, by Craig Silvey, is an Australian novel published in 2009 about the life of Charlie Bucktin, a bookish 14-year-old, and how it changes after Jasper Jones, a half-white aboriginal, shows him the dead body of Laura Wishart. Jasper Jones is a novel regarding...

Jasper Jones, a novel written by Craig Silvey, is set in a small Western Australian town in the mid-1960s and is a great example of what a Bildungsroman is. Although the novel is set almost 60 years ago, it still provides relevant information about how...

Adversity can be a stepping stone for building an individual’s identity. The attitude in which the individual approach these challenges allows them to mature and change. Adversity forces individuals to be brave and to discover themselves and explore the realities around them, thus enabling them...

‘Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan. He’s a Thief, a Liar, a Thug, a Truant. He’s lazy and unreliable. He’s feral and an orphan, or as good as. His mother is dead, and his father is no good. He’s the rotten model that...

Dysfunctional families to this day have a vast impact on shaping individuals’ identities. Family issues had a high impact on suicide rates in 2019. With attempts being significantly higher as the years go on. In 2018 alone “there were 3,046 deaths by suicide with an...

Whilst most authors base their literature around current contextual events some ‘go against the grain’ and construct their own writing on past contextual events. Craig Silvey in his 2009 novel “Jasper Jones”, set in 1965 presents a tale of growth for the protagonist Charlie Bucktin,...

Did your grandparents ever tell you that they rode a kangaroo to school? It was all a load of BS. That’s right your oldies have been telling you lies this whole time. And you fell for it. We have all heard that Australians rode the...

The 2009 novel, ‘Jasper Jones’ has uncanny similarities to the short film ‘Be My Brother’ on the concept of belonging. Belonging is considered a fundamental human need and a source of survival, safety, protection, and happiness. However, a negative sense of belonging: found among the...

Adapted from the novel by Craig Silvey, Kate Mulvany’s Jasper Jones deals with dark topics of racism, rape, suicide and the stereotypes of gender roles in a light and whimsical manner through a 13-year-old Charlie’s perspective. Directed by Nescha Jelk, the play is layered with...

The as of late renowned novel Jasper Jones, composed by Craig Silvey tells a story of a little fellow named Charlie Bucktin and his companion Jasper Jones finding the enemy of a young lady named Laura Wishart. As Charlie looks for his personality, he faces...

Jasper Jones is a novel written by Craig Silvey; it was set in the 1960s in Australia within a town called Corrigan. In Jasper Jones being the ‘other’ in a small-town results in discrimination towards characters. Bullying was one, it was demonstrated in the novel...

Jasper Jones is a contemporary Australian story that explores the life of a teenage boy who is attempting to grow up and learn that racism and death overshadow the community of his home town. Despite the dark themes of the play, the production goes against...

Harper Lee’s unveiling novel To Kill a Mockingbird is often compared with Rachel Perkin’s film adaption of Jasper Jones due to the interpretation of harsh racism in the small town of Maycomb and Corrigan. The context of being an outsider and not fitting into society’s...

The theatre production that the audience viewed was Jasper Jones, presented by the State Theatre Company South Australia and Flinders University. Based on the book by Craig Silvey, and adapted by Kate Mulvany. The style of the performance was a combination of both Naturalism (Stanislavski),...