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The Life
and Crimes
of Harry
Lavender
- Claudia
Valentine
- Setting:
Sydney.
Australia
- 2. The city of Sydney as a form of corruption
- Day has personified Sydney through evocative
references to body organs, veins and blood vessels to
highlight Lavender's corruption
- “Expose the viscera… the road-like veins, the transport of deadly cargo, the bloodstream of the city’s
body...”
- Metaphor
- the effect of the blood implies how Harry Lavender’s
corruption is being spread throughout the body, which is
representative of the city of Sydney.
- the effect of the blood implies how Harry Lavender’s
corruption is being spread throughout the body, which is
representative of the city of Sydney.
- Metaphor
- Conveys Sydney as a character through the use of child imagery, to
demonstrate there is some innocence to Sydney but that it is slowly
being corrupted by the adult influence of Lavender
- “She blew hot and cold like a moody child…Sydney
was…not so high, not so dying, only sick sometimes…”.
- Frequency adverb of ‘sometimes
- Indicates that it is not a completely
vicious and a corrupt city.
- Indicates that it is not a completely
vicious and a corrupt city.
- Frequency adverb of ‘sometimes
- “She blew hot and cold like a moody child…Sydney
was…not so high, not so dying, only sick sometimes…”.
- the cancer motif of Lavender which is repeated through the cancer zodiac symbol on the computer
screen
- “That symbol of cancer has eaten my heart. And has
been eating it away right from the beginning!’
- shows the idea that Harry Lavender’s presence is
everywhere and is difficult to remove.
- It is identified that Sydney is only sick sometimes, but the
cancer reference suggests that Lavender's corruption will make
the city terminal.
- By personifying the setting into almost a character itself, it moves the setting beyond it merely being
a backdrop
- shows the idea that Harry Lavender’s presence is
everywhere and is difficult to remove.
- “That symbol of cancer has eaten my heart. And has
been eating it away right from the beginning!’
- “Expose the viscera… the road-like veins, the transport of deadly cargo, the bloodstream of the city’s
body...”
- Day has personified Sydney through evocative
references to body organs, veins and blood vessels to
highlight Lavender's corruption
- Composer: Marele Day
- 1. Gender stereotypes
- Raising a critical awareness of gender stereotype
by rewriting the archetypal male detective from a
female point of view
- At the beginning of the text, Day
enables the reader to assume that
Claudia is a male detective
- "I woke up feeling like death...The blond slept on...Thank God the Black suit was hanging in the wardrobe"
- Simile "feeling like death"
- conforms to the traditional
hard-boiled detective being a
heavy-drinker
- conforms to the traditional
hard-boiled detective being a
heavy-drinker
- "The black suit was hanging in the wardrobe"
- remeniscent of the noir film 'The Big Sleep (1946). The
archetypal male detective, wearing the typical detective
coat
- remeniscent of the noir film 'The Big Sleep (1946). The
archetypal male detective, wearing the typical detective
coat
- By assuming that the protagonist is male, it
raises a critical awareness of gender
stereotypes present within society
- Therefore, the description of appearance enables the
reader to assume Claudia as the typical male detective
- Draws on the sleexy detective
charcteristics throuh the reference to
the one night stand "The blond slept on
- Cleverly uses 'the blond' to symbolise a
female partner
- The idea of masculine conquest only to reveal
that the protagonist is identified as a female
- As a result, it questions gender assumptions present within societ
- Conveying that gender subversion and the idea of sexual restriction is
recognised through society, it shows to the audience that it is highly
unlikely that a female would be assumed of initiating a one night stand
- Through this, Claudia is in control of her
surroundings and partners, stating that her
power is eqivilant to her male counterparts
- Cleverly uses 'the blond' to symbolise a
female partner
- Simile "feeling like death"
- "I woke up feeling like death...The blond slept on...Thank God the Black suit was hanging in the wardrobe"
- At the beginning of the text, Day
enables the reader to assume that
Claudia is a male detective
- Raising a critical awareness of gender stereotype
by rewriting the archetypal male detective from a
female point of view
- 3. Technology as a double edged sword
- Conveying that technology is a double-edge sword where it
can be used for both good and evil in the crime world. It
portrays a technological aspect to Claudia's crime solving
- Through Otto’s technological understanding, Claudia is able
to discover more clues of Mark Bannister’s death through
hacking Mark’s computer. However, Claudia is critical of the
effects of technology which is evident in her description of
Mark’s computer and the effect it has on Otto
- “Otto glided to the computer like a zombie summoned by its master. The computer sat there
blankly reflecting Otto’s face in its screen. Mineral stillness. Not a master, a servant. Innocent,
clean-cut plastic. Too much like a child’s toy to make life and death decisions. It almost smiled.”
- Simile
- “Otto glided to the computer like a zombie
summoned by its master”. Claudia compares Otto to
a zombie to show that he is a servant of technology.
He is mindless like a zombie who is being called to
follow the orders of its master.
- Claudia contradicts her first description of Otto
being the slave by stating that the computer is
actually, “Not a master, a servant”
- Claudia contradicts her first description of Otto
being the slave by stating that the computer is
actually, “Not a master, a servant”
- “Otto glided to the computer like a zombie
summoned by its master”. Claudia compares Otto to
a zombie to show that he is a servant of technology.
He is mindless like a zombie who is being called to
follow the orders of its master.
- Juxtaposition
- The two perspectives suggests that she is ambiguous in her position to
technology, and whether it can be served for purposes
of good or evil.
- The two perspectives suggests that she is ambiguous in her position to
technology, and whether it can be served for purposes
of good or evil.
- Furthermore, she then continues her references to the computer
comparing it to a child toy, reiterating the idea of surface impressions that
it is innocent due to the child imagery.
- “It almost smiled”
- Personification
- personifying the computer, suggesting that it is dangerous
- personifying the computer, suggesting that it is dangerous
- Personification
- “It almost smiled”
- By ending the description with an imagery of an evil
smile, it suggests that she is leaning towards a distrust of
technology.
- Simile
- “Otto glided to the computer like a zombie summoned by its master. The computer sat there
blankly reflecting Otto’s face in its screen. Mineral stillness. Not a master, a servant. Innocent,
clean-cut plastic. Too much like a child’s toy to make life and death decisions. It almost smiled.”
- Through Otto’s technological understanding, Claudia is able
to discover more clues of Mark Bannister’s death through
hacking Mark’s computer. However, Claudia is critical of the
effects of technology which is evident in her description of
Mark’s computer and the effect it has on Otto
- Conveying that technology is a double-edge sword where it
can be used for both good and evil in the crime world. It
portrays a technological aspect to Claudia's crime solving
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