Character Critical Essay (The Telegram)

Question 1

What are the techniques used

Answer 1

Characterisation, language, dialogue, sentence structure and anti climax

Question 2

What is the quote for Paragraph 1.1

Answer 2

“People began to think of the telegram as a strange missile pointed at them from abroad”

abroad = outsider

Question 3

What is the quote for Paragraph 1.2

Answer 3

This was a bare village with very little colour and therefore the yellow was strange and unnatural

presence shatters mundane atmosphere

Question 4

What is the quote in paragraph 2.1

Answer 4

You’d think he was proud of it. Knowing before anyone else

Question 5

What is the quote for Paragraph 2.2

Answer 5

He passed the Stewarts said the fat woman. Two houses to go. They looked at eachother wildly

Question 6

What is the quote for Paragraph 3.1

Answer 6

“And, miracle of miracles, the elder passed the plank and walked on

Question 7

What is the quote for Paragraph 3.2

Answer 7

The tg was crushed in his fingers and so sweaty they could hardly make out the writing