![]() I looked straight at them and offered up the best story I could muster. #25: “I was terrified, but something kicked in me. When I hear his name, there’s that lump in my throat again…” And of course it’s given more credence than it could possibly deserve. #24: “The people behind me start murmuring about how it must have started… And then somebody says it, like I knew they would… like I knew they would. To assure her I tried to do the right thing. And nothing will ever happen to them… Because a girl goes missing in this town and it is Jasper Jones who is held and threatened…Because now…” #22: “Because Jeffrey Lu was a hero today and…and they dragged him back to the bottom… Because those men struck his father, over and over, and they destroyed something beautiful. Techniques: Emotive language, truncated sentences.It’s small and it’s nasty and it’s lousy with sadness.” Techniques: Recurring motif, symbolism (of morality, redemption, and remorse).Techniques: Truncated sentences, repetition.I would have stayed safe in my room… I would have woken up like I used to. #19: “I think how different everything would have been… I would have been free of all this. Techniques: Repetition, Gothic fiction trope.But it seems she was snatched away by something infinitely more sinister and terrifying… the same thing that’s thieved my appetite… the thing that makes this town so quick to…point its finger…” #18: “Laura Wishart wasn’t kidnapped by Mad Jack Lionel. It’s like if you just watch someone drown from the shore without swimming out to help them. #16: “When she fell pregnant, Jack Lionel railed hard against it… dirtying the family name.” I think she just wants to tie rocks to all their feet.” I think she wants to do something with all this blame and hurt. #15: “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. ![]() #14: “If you’re capable of that kind of evil, can you be capable of an equal share of remorse?” Techniques: Dichotomies, recurring motif.You’ve got to get brave to say it and mean it. And it’s a hard and humbling gesture, to take the blame and admit fault. But it’s good people who can tell the difference, who know when they’ve crossed the line. #13: “Every character in every story is buffeted between good and bad, between right and wrong. Techniques: Symbolism of Jeffrey’s alienation (and racial injustice).#12: “I observe Jeffery standing apart from the group sucking at a plastic cup as the rest of the team forms a circle that excludes him.” The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.” #11: “I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. #10: “I understood then that maybe we really did do the wrong thing for the right reasons” #9: “When you’re born, you wither luck out or you don’t. Techniques: Rhetorical questions, repetition, emotional language.What is it of a world that could let pretty girls get beaten and hanged?…What kind of world punches someone for using big words?” #8: “What kind of lousy world is this? Has it always been this way, or has the bottom fallen out of it in the past couple of days? Has it always been so unfair? What is it that tips the scales so? I don’t understand it. Techniques: Rhetorical questions, repetition.Why he shot a man between the eyes as he answered his door. #7: “There are stories etched into that face, but what I’m really searching for is why. Techniques: Repetition, rhetorical questions.And I wonder: how thin is the line? Is it something we all have in us? Is it just a matter of friction and pressure?” #6: “It occurs to me for the first time that people can do this to each other. Techniques: Figurative language, repetition, rhetorical question.Why didn’t anybody help her?…They let it happen… Whole towns. ![]() #5: “It’s the whole choir of mute voices that puts a lump in my throat. #4: “It just isn’t right that I have so many things that he doesn’t” #3: “…he will go to prison for something he didn’t do. ![]() #2: “Jeffrey’s parents are Vietnamese, so he’s ruthlessly bullied and belted about by the boys at school.” And I always used to think, why? They don’t even know me… But then I realised, that’s exactly why. They reckon I’m just half an animal with half a vote. #1: “I mean, I know people have always bin afraid of me… Wary. Download our list of Jasper Jones quotes now!
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