How Jane Gardam Reveals the Extraordinariness of Ordinary People
Jane Gardam uses a variety of writing styles to give the characters
and narrators a sense of extraordinariness. She does this, for
example, through her choice of language that gives life to the
characters. Three stories in this collection that show this are The
First Adam, Stone Trees and An Unknown Child.
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One of the ways in which Jane Gardam explores the unusual features of
every day people is the use of narrative voice, in first or third
person. The First Adam, is a story of a man named Bull. After finding
retirement boring, Bull returned to work in Drab. The analogy of the
orang-outang is a symbol of Bull's lonely life, which also comes
across through the use of monologue throughout the story. The audience
are first introduced to Bull's extraordinary way of life when he uses
the phrase "My tender mistress" to describe his work. This story is
written using a first person narrator and so he expresses his own
thoughts and feelings to the reader. This is useful for the reader as
they are seeing exactly the same as Bull and so gain an understanding
of the way he views Drab, his work and his life. This is similar to
the style chosen for Stone Treeswhich is about the narrator, her life
and told using stream of consciousness. The story starts on a journey
to the Isle of Wight where the reader realise that her husband has
recently died. One of the most important points of this story is the
narrator repeatedly telling the audience that she did not want
children but she discovers that her husband al...
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.... In Stone Trees, the narrator
is amazed at how kindly Peter is treating her, "even though he is only
seven". This evokes a moment of realisation when she sees the pink
starfish and sees the, "growing things that are there all the time,
though only now and then seen."
All these characters experience "The Pangs of Love" which shows them
to be different and in some cases extraordinary. Jane Gardam's use of
writing styles, for example first and third person, monologue, stream
of consciousness and use of metaphors of motifs teach the audience
different features of the characters so that they are seen as
individuals. The fact that the characters thoughts are all told to the
reader helps them to empathise with the characters and see them as
surprising for coping with their difficult situations in the ways that
they do.
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