Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Go Between/ Pigeon English Coursework
- Social Class and
Staus
- The Go Between
- The social classes are rigidly divded, it is
only posssible to move up the social ladder
by marrying into a family of a higher
Status.
- This is why Marian is presured by her mother to marry Lord Trimingham, as
the family will gain entry into the arisocracy, thus forbidding her relationship
with Ted, as marrying Ted will cause the family to move down the social
ladder.
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- Setting
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- 'The past is a foreign country:
they do things differently there'
- L.P. Hartley paints a very detailed picture of rural England at
the beginning of the twentieth century.
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- Set within a counsel estate- associated
with violence and criminality
- Stabbing of the boy - presence of the police and the
helicoptors make it seem like an edgy enviroment
- The vandalism and the destruction of the children's
playground symbolises the destructruction of
childhood.
- Friendship, Trust and Betrayal
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- Leo longs to be accepted, therefore he takes the
kindness of both Marian and Ted at face value.. He is
naive to the fact that he is being used and only
learnof this later.
- Even after Leo finds out that he is being used, he is torn between his dissapproaval of his
actions and his need for their affection, which results in a continuation of him delievering
their messages.
- Love affair robs him of his innocence
emerging him to a world of betrayal
- This not only causes him to become a liar,
but it also results in him getting caught
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- The Writer uses contrastng
characters to show both good
and bad morals
- Poppy is the preserver of Harri's innocence whereas
Maquita is the destroyer
- Adolesence
- The Go Between
- Explores the mind of a young boy on a
threshold of adolesence, fasinated by the adult
world. Leo is desperate to learn what life is
really about.
- Leo is naive about the relationship that he is helping Marian and Ted
to continue. He is curious about the nature of sex and is drawn into a
world of secrecy
- Hartley seems to offer a psychological
explanation for why a man might choose
to live a lonely, unmarried life.
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- Dell Farm Crew - associated
with murder and criminality
- Culture
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- Harri has a lack of understanding for gang culture, which makes him
vulnerable and exposes him to danger. Ultimately what makes him more
vulnerable is the fact that he is oblivious to the danger around him
- It is impottant to question at what point in the novel
does Harri see danger or does he ever.
- Harri has an influence over Lydia and her choice of friend Maquita,
he realises that the actions of Maquita are wrong. Her sexually
exploiting Harri, and her burning Lydia with the hair iron
- By rejecting Maquita Harri is
able to reject evil, which is also
what he convinces Lydia to do
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- Leo doesn't the rictules, and codes of
behaviour, such as formality, rules and
etiquete
- Ignorance
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- Violent relationships
- Auntie Sonia and Julius, Maquita and Killa;
- Women are seen as victims, Maquita
mirrors what is violence she suffers
when she burns Lydia