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the savage by david almond - Coggle Diagram
the savage by david almond
themes
hatred hopper vs blue
gref and death
blues deals with his fathers death
resilience
blue deals with his gref stands up to hopper and comes out the other side stronger
the power of imaagsion
in the book is the stronget teme in the savge blue imagnes that the savage is real and he imagens that hhe is talking to his deceed father this helps him to bring these carcters to life and souport him on his journy
charcters
blue
protaganst,sad,ferarfull,lonly,buled
the savage
strong,wild ,heroic, non verble ,impulcive, berbaric,
blues mother
loving ,caring ,soportive, frendly helpfuull
hopper
antagonist, intimidating, vilon
jess
blues sister, happy, care free ,enjoys blues story
mrs molly
concerler, soportive caring
blues father
loving caring joyfull,frendly, wise , unlucky
plot
key moments
Blue's Dad died
"my dad died"
Blue gets help from miss Molloy
"she wanted him to explore her grief and start to move forward
Blue starts writing The Savage
once i stated writing it was like i couldn't stop
Blue bullied by Hopper
"he spit out the of his mouth at me call me dogbreath ratface
Blue dreams about the savage
it was ok it was just a dream
blue shows his mother his book his collection of stories
its fantastic
Blue realizes that the stories help blue to deal with there grief and it made Jess happier.
jess giggled trough her tears. Her tears dried. When I wrote all that i felt much better
the savage meets hopper
then he punched him hard in the face
Blue realizes that the savage is real. He is the savage
"then he punched him hard in the face
blue acts like the savage in school
i grunted at her i bared my teeth and sanrled at her like he savge would
the savage has super powers
he can see in the dark
blue confronts hopper
i'll send him agin if you dont lay of
blue finishes the book and has grown as a character
it is time to move forward it is time to share the story to let it go we're not as sad as we were back then
blue contacted with his father on a spiritual level
i heard dads voice speaking to me stay happy son i am with you always
symbols
axe held by the savage it is a symbol it is a syombol of vionce
book/notepad syombl of blues journey it shows how he grows as a charcter
cave syombol of the savages home
blood symbol of violence and conflict
pen soymbol o blue espresing himself it is also a syombol of growth
relationships
blue and the savage
closer,frendly positive,strong
blue and hopper
negitive,enmies,weak,dangourous,hatreid,conflict,dislike
blue and his mother
loving ,strong,carign ,good supoortive
blue and jess
family, caring,soportive,strong,loving
blue and his dad
positve family nostalgic strong supportive loving
positve soportive school
creative languge
Imagery: description of hopper "He had a home made tattoo of a skull on his brow and Love and Hate tattooed onto his knuckles"
onomatopoeia jess gigled (hearing) through her tears
simile "I waved my hand like I had a accident"
Repetition: "I grunted at her I grunted again" (blue is acting like the savage)
Assonance: "but it's time to move forward to share the story to let it go" (the brood o vowel is repeated)