Kathy's Characterisation 3
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- Created on: 28-01-21 17:14
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- Kathy
- Attitudes to Ruth
- Passive/ tolerant
- Often sticks up to her despite unkindness
- "You know, Tommy. All that talk that used to go around Hailsham" (saves R embarrassment)
- Often sticks up to her despite unkindness
- Allows R to manipulate her
- Helping bring T and R back together
- Agreeing to become T's carer
- Remains loyal even after being lied to (ch.5)
- R has influence over her (ch5&6)
- Gains unusual power over R due to her fragility and disregards her instructions (215)
- Shared experience at H helps to overcome their differences
- Feels at a disadvantage when she argues with R
- Uses an analogy to describe feelings
- R copying veterans and manipulating T pg 122
- "it was like when you make a move in chess...you see this mistake...and there's this panic"
- Makes allowances for her (126), strikes readers as overly-generous
- Getting a deferral pg 227
- "there's a mistake, a tussle , and the gun's with the second person"
- R copying veterans and manipulating T pg 122
- Uses an analogy to describe feelings
- How can they be compared?
- R's tape subsitute not as satisfying as T finding real thing (hints at romance)
- K's dicussion about sexuality w/ T (179) more genuine than w/ R (126)
- EOL
- Feels no hostility
- Felt it was unjust that she died thinking deferrals existed and didn't have to live with the legacy she left them
- Recognisable relationship (in and out groups) emphasises humanity
- How easy it it for the humanity of an individual to be diminished if it suits the purpose of a more powerful group?
- Passive/ tolerant
- Determined
- Examples:
- Outing R for lying about Miss G and pencil case
- Becoming R and T's carer
- Seeking a deferral
- Leaving the Cottages
- "once I'd made [up my mind], I never wavered"
- Examples:
- Attitudes to Tommy
- Interested in finding out extent of T's troubles
- Angry when K thinks T is telling her lies (Ch. 2)
- R says that T respects her because she is brave and keeps her promises
- When they finally become a couple, it feels as though they've waited too long
- How can they be compared?
- R's tape subsitute not as satisfying as T finding real thing (hints at romance)
- K's dicussion about sexuality w/ T (179) more genuine than w/ R (126)
- Describes drawings as delicate and fragile (like T) suggesting that they reveal his soul and their deep connection
- Lacks experience to deal with complex emotional situations maturely
- Avoids conflict
- Allows R to mistreat her for too long
- Adds to her humanity
- Like the rest of us, she is just navigating a small world until her time arrives, coping by fortifying herself against death with her memories of friendship and H
- Not taught to process emotions by guardians as they don't take a parental role
- Frightened by her emotional world
- Attitudes to Ruth
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