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Character development - Coggle Diagram
Character development
Bastard
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In chapter 4, "Real change" Bastard reveals that he wants to be president because he wants to be rich. Bastard doesn´t lose complete hope although his situation is really bad. He never loses his brave way of saying things and answers in a bad way when his friends make fun of him. In this chapter Bastard also smokes which shows he wants to be an adult and does this kind of things so that he looks like one.
"He laughs like the men, takes a drag on the cigarette, and then smoke chokes him he coughs and coughs and spits".
Bastard´s innocence is illustrated in the way he always tries to seem older and brave, but he instead is only a child.
Chipo
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In chapter 6, Chipo and her friends try to perform an abortion of the baby. Chipo ends up crying. This chapter illustrates Chipo´s innocence.
"Chipo, who sits up and takes
the cup and drinks the urine without asking questions.": in this scene Chipo drinks Darling´s pee since she thinks that would help with the "abortion", which shows her innocence and her willlingness to end up with her baby and be a child again.
"We need new names" is a very important chapter for Chipo since at the beginning of the chapter she is in a way ecxited with the idea of ending with her baby. Instead, at the end of the chapter she realises that won´t happen and falls into reality.
Darling
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In the chapter "Real change", Darling is portrayed as a nostalgic character as she describes her old life and relates how she ended up in Paradise. She appears to be a child deep down, with the typical fears they have, as she says she sometimes has nightmares about bulldozers and police. Also, she is straightforward when she tells how sometimes at night she hears her mother having sex with a man, which she doesn´t like.
In this chapter we get to know a lot more of Darling knowing she misses her old life and although she narrates the story in an innocent way, she has gone though many things and we get to know she is mature for her age.
"Before, we had a home and
everything and we were happy"
Mother Love
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sensitive and empathic / caring, maternal, supportive
In chapter 6, "We Need New Names", she is the one who finds the girls trying to perform an abortion on Chipo. She shows empathic since instead of getting angry with the girls she understands the situation and hugs Chipo while she cries.
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Sbho
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She is the "adult" of the group and sometimes play a maternal role, she shows intelligence compared to other children.
In chapter 6, she is also part of the "abortion". She plays the role of a doctor and shows interest on this.
"This is what they do in ER, Sbho says. I think, What is ER? I cannot remember, so I just keep quiet." This quote shows Sbho´s interest in medicine and her intelligence since she knows things that other girls don´t.
Forgiveness
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We don´t now much about her, only that she isn´t completely black according to Darling. She is new in Paradise. She wants to play with the girls.
She appears in the chapter "We need new names" to practise the "abortion" with the girls since they needed some help. She is new in Paradise so the girls doesn´t like her and they leave her aside, so she tries to belong.
"Why are you taking so long?" "I said, I can pee, Forgiveness says again, her voice raised this time." By this quotes it is clear Forgiveness has a very strong personality and although she is new, she doesn´t let the girls disrespect her.