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'spies themes'
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Mind Map on 'spies themes', created by lewis_naughton2215 on 12/01/2015.
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'spies themes'
friendship
Keith and Stephen
Stephen is Keith's only friend
'finding a real friend therefore it does get lonely if you don't have any brother or sisters.
built on trust
batrayed keith
Barbrah Beryll and Stephen
'but you could be my next best friend if you like.
Mrs Hayward and Stephen
she trusts him to deliver the basket to uncle Pete
time and memory
the whole novel is a memory
ch.1+parts of other present tense
'the close has changed
revisits the close
once again
repeated suggests he has done these things
narrator has regrets
never had a job or got married
suburban life
houses; number 2 = next too the hardiment
the children walk around on there own.
everyone knows everyone
'the houses have become tidy and tedious, their disparate achetecture styles somehow homogenised by new porches and lamps
'the milk man drives down and stops at number 12 as he always does' they know his routine
they wanted to build an underground message sending tunnel.
the strange goings-on at trewnnick carless talk about the whereabouts of Mr Berril and the MacAfee's son
exploration + discovery
places
haywards house
tunnel
Mrs Hayward's and Auntie D
golf course
planes can land
search for bigfoot
sexual
curiosity, unknown, unfamiliar feeling
Barbrah Beryll
men and women
Stephen and Barbrah Berill
"lots of the ladies have boyfriends while everyone's daddies are away"
as young boys, girls are alien
Stephen has started to feel attracted to girls
when she asks him questions he always responds "of course I did"
Mr + Mrs H
Does he know what she is up too
"super is on the table"
power
Keith and Stephen
Keith's mother registers an almost imperceptible moment of superiority
believe their knowledge gives power
Haywards and Wheatley
The Hayward's are
secrecy
Stephens family
the whole family knows they are German apart form Stephen
Stephen's father uses strange words
s's father spying for the British against the German
s's father spying for the British against the German
Keith's mother + Uncle Peter
Uncle. P never loved Auntie Dee
Mrs H covers up the cut sustained from her husband
why does she go into the tunnel
rest of the close
Barbara says her another has a boyfriend while husband is away.
spying and survallance
Barbra
spying on Stephen and Keith
adults
to children
the parents in the book kind of know what the children are dong. It is often mentioned Stephen and Keith spend a lot of time together
general
'my mother is a German spy'
it seems like no one else in the close has any idea what is happening
children
to adults
Stephen and Keith were the initial instigators of spying.
identity
narrator has 2 identities (conflict)
English
as a child he imagined a great divide
But as an adult he realises they are both parts of himself
German
Names
'Why we have an embarrassing name like Wheatley. why can't we be called something more like Hayward'
boring and plain
social divide
names
schools
character hide their true identities
knowledge and ignorance
knowledge
surprising about Canada's wheat production.
he knows German- Stephen
Keith 'mechanical knowledge
ignorance
"x and I" what do they mean
"dark ages" (simile) used to describe the distance + darkness of old Stephens memories
old Stephen- doesn't know what 'liguster is.
where is she going
'the juice'
childhood
first relations ship
Barbra Berill is in control
older Stephen reflecting on childhood memories
Liguster- privet bush
Keith and Stephen
childish games
childishness misinterpretations
fear of the out known
family
Wheatleys
Stephen compare's the two families
mother is boring
Stephen doesn't think highly about his father
follows Keith a lot
haywards
posh
better school
Keith is better educated
keith is impressed by his dad
perfect neat house
War
game
games based on wars
'a father in the secrete service and a mother who's a german spy
black market
Keith mum gets food From Auntie D
cheap and reliable source
WW2
'why did the Germans drop an incendiary bomb on the close
Stephen is really effected by the war
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