PARA 1 Flashcards
topic sentence
The characterisation of the father has been skillfully used in the novel to position the reader to understand how their problematic morals are issues produced as a result of the dangerous principles that the dystopian world has pressured them to conform to.
point 1)
Losing love for human life and forgoing the ability to empathise with others is displayed by the people of the community who work in the nurturing centre and are “trained in the fine art of release” otherwise known as medically induced death and are essentially killing these citizens without them knowing that it is about to happen to them.
point 2)
When we are first introduced to the father he is working at the nurturing centre, and is holding up a little boy while three very similar looking ladies are holding babies all in the same way; demonstrating to the reader that these newborns are triplets which hints at the major plotline later on in the novel where the father murders the smaller twin baby.
point 3)
Which results in Jonas having a revelation that the nurturers have not been upholding their responsibilities to the babies but rather to the community’s twisted rules as they are “happy to kill people, small newborn people” in an attempt to achieve true sameness.
anylsis
The similar and contrasting elements from both scenes visually demonstrates how Jonas’s father was a beacon of light in his life and the most empathetic and caring person in his life; however he later learns that his father’s assignment not only entails looking after babies but murdering them which signifies how desensitised he is to feelings of guilt and empathy due to conforming to the communities distorted values of positivity, safety and sameness.
linking sentence
Therefore characterisation has been effectively used to position readers to understand that due to being forced to conform to the community’s morals the father became a heartless killer and automotive servant to the community.
