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Author's Techniques: James Roy & Noel Zihabamwe (Repetition to…
Author's Techniques: James Roy & Noel Zihabamwe
Meaning of names:
Two teachers p72
Smiiey-man
Animal Imagery
RTLM messages about cockroaches p23 p127, p157
snakes (liars p11, pro-peace p129)
pigs p148
bird-claw hand p52/75
mosquitoes p50
Repetition
to emphasise a point
No...
Straight...
dark
"And there was the
dying
. Of course there's the
dying
. For many, that's all this was ever about." p6
RTLM radio voice talks of it being hard to get rid of cockroaches: "
I've said this over and over, haven't I?
You kill one, but then there's always another five or ten or a hundred hidden in the shadows." p157
"You shouldn't be outside" p172
Symbolism
to explain big concepts
Bell
Strangler fig
radio RTLM
wet season
Foreshadowing
Children's game: People Game vs Chasing Game
JB hiding in fig tree
White Adidas sneakers
Commandments: thou shalt not kill p85
Appealing to emotions
so we feel empathy
shock/disbelief
sadness
anger
trauma "There's the radio, with its message that chilled the boy to the bone." p6
confusion "Please don't forget...the man who was an enemy before he was a friend, even just for a little while." p6
Unreliable narrator
Naive p121
Liar p108, p113
Allusion
Romeo & Juliet
Contrasting relationships
to show conflict
two priests
two absent brothers
two brothers
two friends
bus patrons
Characterisation
to engage the reader
Dr Singh
Miss Uwazuba
Mr Ingabire p103
Pascal
fighter p101
guilt p113
Incomplete Sentences
to imply shock
Observations of soldiers whilst en route to collect J-B p166
Meeting Jules (Kami's brother) p168
Reality of death p205
Historical references
to make it credible
Death of president p156
Bildingsroman
"It's important that you listen to me." p175
"Later, he'd wish he had." p162
Metaphors
M&Ms p105
cockroaches vs jolts p183
Carving appreciation of differences - selling point p20
Chanting
Were they singing, chanting or just yelling? Maybe all three at once? p 148 p 182 p 190
First Person Narration
to reveal thoughts
Very weird, all this bug talk at the moment. p148