Dead paddocks and dried-up dams and a bunch of ghosts covered in dust walking around a place where nothing ever changes. I reckon it’s set in a town of never-ending fucking silence. He’s more in love with that bloody book than he is with me.You think he’s sitting in that nursery mourning our dead child? No. So me being here, under a full moon, being led by Jasper Jones past the brown lawns and gardens of my sleeping neighbourhood, past the cricket pitch, past the railway, past the power station, over the bridge, through the farm district, and knowing what my mother would do if she found out where I was … Well let’s just say this is something way more adventurous than anything Huckleberry Finn ever did.ĮXTRACT: Your father and I don’t love each other anymore. And so the case is closed with just one simple instruction, 'Stay away from Jasper Jones". Their parents think their poor little child has somehow been waylaid by a demon. And the kids always nod, because Jasper's involvement instantly absolves them. Whatever the misdemeanor - nicking lollies from the store, throwing lit matches down the mines, or sneaking through fences to push over cows - no matter how clear their own child is guilty, parents ask immediately, ‘Were you with that motherless half-caste Jasper Jones?'. In this town, Jasper is the first to be blamed for everything. So me sneaking out with Jasper Jones, who is known throughout Corrigan as the worst kid in town, well, it's fair to say this is particularly out of character for me. Actually, I'm pretty much a virgin to every kind of thing. ]ĮXTRACT: Jasper Jones has come to my window! Jasper Jones needs me! You have to understand, I've never snuck out before. Whether you know the book or not, this piercing adaptation is very much worth seeing for the way it depicts – and shows ways across – some of the deep and enduring divides in our society." - Jason Blake SMH It is a significant contributor to the engaging and relevant young adult fiction that is currently available. A coming-of-age story, Jasper Jones interweaves the lives of complex individuals all struggling to find happiness among the buried secrets of a small rural community. Craig Silvey’s critically acclaimed novel Jasper Jones could have been another clich story about the budding relationship between Charlie and Eliza, but Silvey managed to tie romance, crime and coming of age all into one. Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel is wise and beautiful. ![]() He needs every ounce of Charlie’s bookish brain to help solve this awful mystery before the town turns on Jasper. Jasper has stumbled upon a terrible crime in the scrub nearby, and he knows he’s the first suspect – that goes with the colour of his skin. But when 16-year-old, constantly-in-trouble Jasper Jones appears at his window one night, Charlie’s out of his depth. ![]() Overseas, war is raging in Vietnam, Civil Rights marches are on the streets, and women’s liberation is stirring – but at home in Corrigan Charlie Bucktin dreams of writing the Great Australian Novel. It’s summer 1965 in a small, hot town in Western Australia.
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