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Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the ways that Jasper, Charlie, Jack Lionel, and Wesley create a new world in which women and minorities have the possibilities of rights and respect. You may focus on one topic or on more than one character.

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Throughout the novel, Charlie thinks of the way he walks in relation to others. Sometimes he is behind, other times he is in the lead or walking side-by-side with someone else. Write an essay in which you discuss the changes in Charlie's character as he relates to others in this way.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the text of one of Charlie's favorite books or authors. How does that work help us to grasp the themes of the novel? Can the novel to which he alludes and the text of Jasper Jones be compared or contrasted...

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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 parents hold aloft as a warning: This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient. Jasper Jones is the example of where poor aptitude and attitude will lead.

“Bloody hell. Listen, Charlie, we can’t tell anyone. No way. Specially the police. Because they are gonna say it was me. Straight up. Understand?”

I am dizzy and sick. And it’s as though touching her has sealed my fate. I am in this story. She can’t be ignored. She’s real. I’ve touched her now. I’ve been privy to her last moments of heat, her last wisps of smoke.

I wish I could tell Jeffrey everything. I really do. I wonder what it is about holding in a secret that hurts so much. I mean, telling Jeffrey doesn’t change anything, it doesn’t take anything back. It’s just information. It doesn’t dredge that poor girl from the depths of the dam, doesn’t breathe her back to life. So why do I feel like I need to blurt it all out?

He doesn’t need superpowers. That’s my point. You’re an idiot. He can hold his own. He has an alter ego. He has a costume. He fights for Truth and Justice. He has arch enemies. And he does all this without any weird mutations. He’s just really determined. That’s what makes him interesting. The fact that with enough dedication and desire, we could all be Batman. Bat men . Bat people . And that’s what makes him the best.

How was it that Gertrude Baniszewski could seduce so many children into committing these acts? How could they turn up, day after day, to do the unspeakable? And how could they return home of an evening, no words of shame or remorse tumbling out of their mouths? What did Sylvia Likens do to deserve this? Or was it just shit luck and chance?

I think about Eliza’s manner. So dry and centered. So matter-of-fact amid the panic. I watch her climbing the garden steps to their front door, holding her weeping mother. Someone is there to meet them with an outstretched hand and a look of concern. I shrink behind the branches. And then, swift as a knife, it occurs to me. A rash of sparks coats my skin. My heart almost leaps from my chest, and my brick slides.

Eliza Wishart knows something.

It’s occurred to me that one day she might not come back at all. She might simply refuse. I know her family pressure her. I know they coddle her with self-serving concern, that they constantly remind her of the things she’s missing, the things they feel she deserves. And I don’t really blame her for being seduced by it. It’s what she grew up with, I guess.

Strangely, of all the horrible things I’ve encountered and considered recently, dropping a bomb seems to be the least violent among them, even though it’s clearly the worst. But there’s no evil mug shot, no bloody globe. It’s hard to figure out who to blame. There’s something clean about all that distance. Maybe the further away you are, the less you have to care, the less you’re responsible. But that seems wrong to me. It should be in the news. It’s wrong that they died. But if they weren’t Jeffrey’s family, would I care so much? That’s hard. Probably not, I guess. I mean, if you took every bad event in the world to heart, you’d be a horrible mess.

Jasper Jones has lost his girl, maybe his best friend, too. His only friend. It seems so infinitely sad to me, I can’t even imagine. To lose someone so close, someone he had his hopes pinned on. Someone he was going to escape with, start anew. And to see her, right there, as she was. Right where I’m sitting. What a horrible series of events this has been. But Jasper Jones has to keep that poker face. He has to throw that cloak over his heart. I wonder how much of Jasper’s life is spent pretending his doesn’t give a shit.

I had to make things work when I could. Soon as you can walk and talk, you start makin your own luck. And I don’t need some spirit in the sky to help me do that. I can do it on my own. But, see, that’s what I reckon, Charlie. It’s that part inside me that’s stronger and harder than anything else. And I reckon prayer is just trustin in it, havin faith in it, just askin meself to be tough. And that’s all you can do.

I look over at An Lu, who is returning to his home, his hands behind his back, his chin on his chest. I wonder what he’s thinking. There’s something about his posture that convinces me he’s judging me poorly. I feel so ashamed, I feel like everyone in this town is disappointed in me. And that’s when I resolve it, with my father’s hand on my back. When Jasper Jones goes, when he leaves town after this mess is over, I’ll be going with him. I’ll be leaving too. Leaving Corrigan behind. For good.

I was terrified, but something kicked in me. I discovered a gift for lies. I looked straight at them and offered up the best story I could muster. It was like I’d clicked opened my suitcase and started spinning a thread at my desk. Weaving between the factual and the fictional. It was factitious. And Jeffrey was right, it was all in the delivery. I had them. I’d reeled them in. They all nodded like it was the truth, writing it down on a yellow pad.

Mostly, I spent the time writing. Almost obsessively. Every day and every night. It’s the thing that gave me company. Along with reading, it’s what got me out of the house without them being able to stop me at the door.

The next ball Jeffrey punches through cover, zipping through for two runs. And it’s with complete disbelief that I hear real encouragement from the sideline. His teammates. In unison those belligerent bastards, yelling, “ Shot , Cong!” across the field, at once turning an insult into a nickname.

“Go home! ” my father explodes. He stands up, tall and intimidating. He glares with real anger. And I can’t help but feel a blush of pride, seeing it. I’ve been wrong about him.

We’ll be like Kerouac and Cassady. We could steal away in boxcars, ride all the way across the country. Melbourne, Sydney. Every town in between. I could document our adventures. Maybe one day I could get our story published under a nom de plume. I’d have to move to New York City. The famous writer who fled from his hometown and shunned the limelight.

I don’t know who this man is, but he didn’t kill anybody. I’ve done everything wrong. Mad Jack Lionel isn’t a criminal. He’s probably not even mad. He’s just old and sad and poor and lonely.

We’d gone to confront Mad Jack Lionel about murdering Laura Wishart only to find that he was driving the car that killed Jasper’s mother. The world isn’t right. It’s small and it’s nasty and it’s lousy with sadness. Under every rock, hidden in every closet, shaken from every tree, it seems there’s something horrible I don’t want to see. I don’t know. Maybe that’s why this town is so content to face in on itself, to keep everything so settled and smooth and serene. And at the moment, I can’t say as I blame them.

This is what happened. And I’ve got to get it out quick, I’ve got to loosen the valve on it and let it go, fizzing and spraying, because it’s too hard, it’s too heavy, it’s too much. I can’t hold on to it for too long because it’ll burn. Do you understand? It’s the knowing. It’s always the knowing that’s the worst. I wish I didn’t have to. I want the stillness back. But I can’t. I can’t ever get it back. So. Thisiswhathappened.

I also have a suspicion that Eliza might be less concerned with what’s right, less concerned about uncovering the truth, than she is about ensuring that she and Jasper Jones, and maybe her father, too, are meted out the penance that she feels they each deserve. I think she wants to do something with all this blame and hurt. I think she just wants to tie rocks to all their feet.

It’s so smart and sad and beautiful that I’m not even jealous. And I have a warm feeling in my belly that says someone important is going to believe in it. That one day I’ll see my father’s name on a straight spine on a bookstore shelf, standing proud and strong and bright.

But what no spectator that day will ever know or anyone who will later lend their ear to an account, is that it requires more courage for me to tentatively bend and snatch up that rotten fruit from amid that sea of bees. My hands tremble. I can barely work my fingers. But I get them.

And for some reason I’m reminded of Eric Cooke, haggard and angry, at the moment they finally asked him the question. I just wanted to hurt somebody , he replied. But that was never the whole story, was it? Only he could have known that, and he held his secrets tight in his fist, in his chest. And there’s always more to know. Always. The mystery just gets covered in history. Or is it the other way around. It gets wrested and wrapped in some other riddle. And I think of Jenny Likens, who also watched her sister die, who said nothing until the end, who got brave too late.

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"This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient.’’ Charlie, p. 5

Jasper is seen as being a negative influence by the community, and as a result, many consider him a villain. When their children misbehave, the parents of Corrigan will often use Jasper as a negative example and tell their children that if they are disobedient, they will end up just like him. By doing this, they encourage their children to develop the same type of mentality as their parents and to manifest prejudice against a person they barely know and understand. Charlie seems to note a strong community-wide pressure to conform to a certain set of pre-approved behaviors.

"How was it that Gertrude Baniszewski could seduce so many children into committing these acts?" Charlie, p. 88

In the third chapter, Charlie goes to the local library where he reads about different crimes. While there, Charlie reads about the case of Sylvia Likens, a young girl who was raped, tortured and murdered by the family that was taking care of her. What is truly horrifying about the case is that many people knew about Sylvia and about what was happening to her, but they chose to do nothing. Charlie thought about how those who knew about her and even her sister could go on about their day without doing anything and without acting in any way to stop it. What the author wanted to highlight through this example was the fact that sometimes, humans are capable of truly horrific things, one of them being the capacity to ignoring something horrific entirely if they think that revealing the truth will not benefit them.

"Eliza Wishart knows something." Charlie, p. 94

Eliza is Laura’s little sister, a girl roughly the same age as Charlie. Despite being the same age as him, Eliza is much more mature and wise than Charlie, and behaves like a grown-up. This prompts Charlie to think that she knows something about her sister and about what happened to her. What he does not know, however, is just how much Eliza knows and how little he knows compared to her. Towards the end of the novel, Charlie will find out just how misinformed he was compared to her.

"And it happens like that. Like when you first realize there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually answers your prayers, or really even listens. That cold moment of dismay where your feet are kicked from under you, where you're disarmed by a shard of knowing." Charlie, p. 14

When Jasper tells Charlie that the police will blame him for Laura's death, he reminds Charlie that his first reaction was to suspect Jasper as well. This causes Charlie to realize that he is as much a part of the problem as anyone else in Corrigan. Charlie realizes the implications of who Jasper is, in particular his racial background, in relation to this crime, and realizes that Jasper is very much at risk. The "shard of knowing" not only forces Charlie to face his own inherent prejudice, but it signifies Charlie's realization that he will help Jasper through this situation no matter what.

"My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up." Charlie, p. 56

Charlie says this during his debate with Jeffery on the merits of Superman versus Batman, but it takes on a larger life once Charlie has made this point, as it begins to frame how Charlie examines the courageous natures of those around him. The debate tells us a lot about what Charlie values in a person's character and illuminates one of the main themes of the novel. For someone who, at this moment in the story, doesn't consider himself very brave, Charlie nevertheless knows what bravery looks like. This is why he is so admiring of his best friend, as Jeffery is often brave in the face of neighborhood bullies who target him because of his race and nationality.

"Strangely, of all the horrible things I've encountered and considered recently, dropping a bomb seems to be the least violent among them, even though it's clearly the worst. But there's no evil mugshot, no bloody grove. It's hard to figure out who to blame. There's something clean about all that distance. Maybe the further away you are, the less you have to care, the less you're responsible. But that seems wrong to me." Charlie, p. 126

In this passage, Charlie is considering the death of Jeffery's family members in Vietnam. He feels as though it is wrong that the bombing of Jeffery's family's village isn't on the news the night that it happens. Charlie doesn't realize that a bombing of this nature probably occurs daily in Vietnam during the war and that many innocent people were facing worse atrocities than that. Charlie thinks that there are good and bad things in the world, and trusts resources like news outlets to be a source of good. This passage introduces the important themes of relativity, perspective, and culpability in the novel. Charlie is beginning to understand how the world works and how adults often cope with violence by ignoring it.

" What a World! Said the green witch in my Wizard of Oz dream. I bet she was happy to go. I bet a part of her was relieved to melt into nothing. For some people, it must be nice to know about dying. It must be a relief." Charlie, p. 128

In this chapter, Charlie is facing the ugliness of the world. He is realizing that the world is not as fair or safe of a place as he once thought, and this is a traumatizing realization. Charlie is coming to terms with death overall without coming to terms with Laura's death specifically. He realizes that knowing about death might be a relief for other people, but it still isn't one for him. Charlie is tormented by his knowledge of what happened to Laura and is beginning to consider whether the Wishart family deserves to know the truth. Charlie wonders what it means to know that you will one day die, and accordingly to expect to die.

"Everyone can learn a trade and pay taxes and have a family. But that's not growin up. It's about how you act when your shit gets shaken up, it's about how much you see around you. That's what makes a man." Jasper, p. 144

Jasper and Charlie discuss Jasper's plan to leave Corrigan when the Laura situation dies down, and Jasper challenges Charlie's perception of what differentiates a kid from a grown-up. Charlie empathizes with Jasper's notion that Corrigan is a dead-end town that he must escape. After this conversation, Charlie gets convinced that he must leave Corrigan too, and by doing so escape all that he has seen and done.

"Every character in every story is buffeted between good and bad, between right and wrong. But it's good people who can tell the difference, who know when they've crossed the line. And it's a hard and humbling gesture, to take blame and admit fault. You've got to get brave to say it and mean it." Charlie, p. 205

In this passage, Charlie is considering what the etched "sorry"s, found on the cypress and on Jack Lionel's car, mean. He wonders if the apology is as condemning of Jack Lionel as Jasper thinks, because Charlie thinks that knowing when to say sorry indicates the kind of empathy that isn't found in a killer. At the moment, Charlie has more to be sorry for than ever before in his life. He is beginning to understand the grey areas of life. He is also beginning to understand the complexities of his own actions. The fact that the word is "sorry" makes Charlie think that it might not have been the killer who etched the word into the cypress: "If you're capable of that kind of evil, can you be capable of an equal share of remorse?" (206).

"The world isn't right. It's small and it's nasty and it's lousy with sadness. Maybe that's what this town is so content to face in on itself, to keep everything so settled and smooth and serene. And at the moment, I can't say that I blame them." Charlie, p. 244

Charlie and Jasper have just learned that Jack Lionel is Jasper's grandfather and that their hypothesis that he killed Laura is incorrect. Charlie is buckling under the pressure of everything he has learned, and something has to give, soon. He has lost all of his innocence and hope, and is beginning to better understand the town he criticized for so long. Charlie is coming to realize that prejudice and tragedy are everywhere one looks, and that stories never end as tidily as one hopes they might.

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Study Guide for Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones study guide contains a biography of Craig Silvey, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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Essays for Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey.

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