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Belonging
- Familiarity (Jasper Jones and Charlie walking to the glade, they have unspoken friendship)
- Jeffery and Charlie interact easily together
- Charlie and his Dad communicate with unspoken candor
- Charlie and his Dad communicate with unspoken candor
- Charlie and his mother do not communicate well or easily
- Eliza and Charlie develop a familiarity and an ease in communication
- Charlie listens to Jack Lionel and becomes familiar with his goodness despite community prejudices
- Jeffery and Charlie interact easily together
- Courage--resistance of fear and mastery of
fear, not the absence of fear
- Charlie speaks to Eliza Wishart even though frightened
- Eliza trusts and confides to Charlie she saw her sister commit suicide
- Charlie confides to Eliza he was with Jasper Jones and put her sister in the water
- Charlie confides to Eliza he was with Jasper Jones and put her sister in the water
- Bigotry and hatred are used often in the book to identify the absence of belonging
- Police, racist neighbours, infidelity, paedophillia
- Police, racist neighbours, infidelity, paedophillia
- Laura Wishart resists her father with the courage she gains through Jasper. When that courage falters, so does her sense of belonging.
- Charlie and his Dad run to An's house to defend a friend
- Charlie speaks to Eliza Wishart even though frightened
- Acceptance
- Charlie accepts the talents that Jeffery has and also accepts what others consider a fault (cricket and ethnicity)
- Charlie's Dad accepts his faults and helps him grow stronger
- Charlie's Dad accepts his Mothers faults and offers unconditional love
- Charlie's Mother is not accepting of his father and does not offer unconditional love. She seeks fulfilment outside the bonds of love
- Charlie never feels the need to act stronger or smarter than Jeffery
- Charlie accepts the talents that Jeffery has and also accepts what others consider a fault (cricket and ethnicity)
- Support and encouragement
- Charlie supports Jeffery with cricket and is happy when he succeeds
- Jeffery encourages Charlie and his budding romance with Eliza
- Charlie shows interest in his Dad's attempts to write and questions him about his progress
- Charlie's Dad accepts his shortcoming and encourages him to grow and develop by modelling desirable traits
- Charlie's Mother models anger, frustration and disappointment. She acts selfishly and loses the right to belong
- Laura and Eliza Wishart's mother turns a blind eye and offers no support. The family is destroyed and the children turn to outside sources for their sense of belonging.
- Charlie supports Jeffery with cricket and is happy when he succeeds
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