Malorie Blackman Essays

  • Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman

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    Recently in class I have read the novel “Pig Heart Boy” by Malorie Blackman. In this essay I will show how the main themes are presented & developed in this story.The novel is set in the twentieth century in London Recently in class I have read the novel “Pig Heart Boy” by Malorie Blackman. In this essay I will show how the main themes are presented & developed in this story. The novel is set in the twentieth century in London and tells the story of a boy who had a heart problem & the

  • Noughts and Crosses

    1286 Words  | 3 Pages

    Noughts and Crosses ‘Noughts and Crosses” by Malorie Blackman is a novel which follows the lives and experiences of two characters, Callum and Sephy. Throughout the book Blackman deals with a number of issues including relationships, alcohol abuse, power abuse, depression and violence. However, the key issues of the book are racism and prejudice. These issues of racism and prejudice are conveyed through the narrative techniques of characterization, point of view, language, structure and setting

  • How Do Minor Characters Affect Callum Mcgregor?

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    How two minor characters affect Callum McGregor Everyone has been influenced before in good and bad ways. Especially, Callum McGregor from the adventure and romantic novel Noughts and Crosses, written in 2001 by Malorie Blackman. Callum is influenced by his mother and brother, which led to bad things such as his role in the Liberation Militia, and joining a school which only caused problems for him. Jude McGregor, Callum’s older, brother influenced Callum through a hateful relationship, the

  • Privilege And Inequality In 'Noughts And Crosses'

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    Inequality in ‘’Noughts and Crosses’’ In her story ‘’Noughts and Crosses’’, Malorie Blackman shows many instances and struggles between the characters involving privilege and/or the lack of such. Through these struggles, each characters individual privilege influences them differently as shown throughout the story, as they either strive to break down barriers, or overcome barriers set in front of them. Blackman shows how the Crosses use power and privilege to maintain a racist society and

  • Dehumanization Examples

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    Power and Impact of Dehumanization “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” In this quote, Aldous Huxley clearly illustrates the power one group of people strive to obtain by disregarding another group’s existence as equals. Through political and social systems that use fear, force, and disinformation, they aim to gain more domination through dehumanization. This mindset can be defined as the utter denial of the fact that a human

  • Edward Snowden is a traitor

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    Is Edward Snowden public enemy number one? Some say yes; some say no. Edward Snowden leaked the National Surveillance Agency (NSA)’s mass surveillance program. For this, Snowden was convicted as being a traitor and an enemy of the United States of America. His actions led to the government becoming vulnerable. This vulnerability from the public view could very easily have caused a domestic incident or a revolution. Snowden violated a contract he signed that swore him to secrecy. That should be enough

  • Reading: An Essential Part of Life

    2388 Words  | 5 Pages

    however the racial segregation between both of the races stands as a major problem together with the birth of their child Rose. As the story goes on Rose grew up and soon began to find out about her heritage which leads her in to more danger. Malorie Blackman is quite a creative writer, as she began to twist racial history. In this series she made the black more superior whilst making the whites inferior. In conclusion I begin to notice a drastic change in my reading pattern, as during my early years