Kathy's Characterisation 1
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- Created on: 23-01-21 09:49
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- Kathy
- Vehicle for enigma
- "My name is Kathy H"
- No surname
- Emphasizes lack of family
- Individuality not appreciated
- No surname
- Intrigue and disturbs reader
- "My name is Kathy H"
- Intimate relationship bw narrator and reader
- Informal language
- Some use of idiom
- Carer described as a "complete waste of space" pg 3
- Characteristic of speech between friends
- Some use of idiom
- First person narrator
- Everything filtered through her apart from when reader's see past her
- Tape stolen and we suspect Ruth to be the culprit
- Realise her calm words are a way of controlling fear of future and sense of loss
- Everything filtered through her apart from when reader's see past her
- Direct address
- Reader positioned as a carer who didn't attend H (already familiar with system)
- Reference to "donors", "guardians" and "completing"
- Reader may find disconcerting
- "I don't know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham we had to have some form of medical almost every week" pg 13
- Reader positioned as a carer who didn't attend H (already familiar with system)
- Reader knows more about K than herself
- Knows she avoids dwelling on emotionally painful events
- Knows she has more depth and complexity than role as a carer
- Untitled
- Informal language
- Unemotional/ flat tone
- "looking forward to a bit more companionship come the end of the year when I'm finished with all of this" pg 232
- Doesn't admit, even to herself, that she's soon to face "ghastly battles" of donations
- Reader gradually becomes aware of much of what is not being said
- Detached in keeping of a medical or social worker
- Immense restraint in demeanour and sense of confinement (physical and psychological) which pervades novel
- Evidence of survivor's guilt
- Ironically, her competence has extended her life more than anyone else's
- Doesn't allow herself to lose control on return to Norfolk
- "the tears rolled down my face"
- "looking forward to a bit more companionship come the end of the year when I'm finished with all of this" pg 232
- Attitude towards fate
- Ignoring the inevitable
- Shown by convoluted storytelling of flashbacks and digressions
- Passive acceptance
- Allegory of human mortality
- Mirrors British attitudes to death with acceptance of society
- Euphemisms e.g. passing away
- Feudal system commentary on classism
- Mirrors British attitudes to death with acceptance of society
- Calm and accepting of inevitable when told deferrals didn't exist
- Contrast to emotional T to emphasise her passivity
- Perhaps as she feels attempting one was pointless
- T's drawings has lost power like him
- Allegory of human mortality
- Implicitly frightened
- Copes with sentimentality
- Reflection common approach to deal with awareness of no future
- Adds to her humanity
- "I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won't lose my memories of them. I suppose I lost Hailsham too" pg 280
- Reflection common approach to deal with awareness of no future
- Starts asking Qs as early as 13
- Analyses Miss Lucy ch7
- More practical attitude than others
- Emotional numbness a manifestation of confusion and anger over fate
- I uses context to build characters
- Ignoring the inevitable
- Vehicle for enigma
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