Notes

This passage begins out of no where with Marty's mother confronting him for his reckless behavior and injuring himself. Mounfield uses battle/combat metaphor; he studied his mother blocking g the hallway in standard attack mode, arms folded, chin raised, eye loaded. The author successfully constructs the characterization of Marty's mother as too motherly and overprotective towards Marty. The reader would be shocked and appalled by his mother's smothering/controlling/overprotective manner and this enhances the irritation/ frustration towards her character. During the confrontation/altercation/ argument Marty and his mother try to talk about how they struggle to agree but the seem powerless to prevent it form occurring. On page 44 when Marty's mother confronts Rick that they should help the victim Aaron it is clear the Rick believes it is not a good idea. The author uses dioluge direct speech to represent Marty's mother as formidable and physically intimedating. Mounfield also positions the reader to accept that mothers of teenagers are often reluctant

Martry's mother dose not resist the bullies and her overprotectivness/paranoia is empahssied through use of similes and a ____ judgement. "she always imagined the worst, expected it." The image/representation of Marty is clearly/shown as the victim. This event is clearly harrowing for Marty and the author is empahssing his pain through the use of similes,"The kid let loose with a scream that could strip paint." In contrast to the antipathy/hate the reader has for Steve, the reader would feel sympathy/sorry and pity/sorrowness for Marty. Despite being subjected to both physical and emotional abuse, he isn't able to stand up and defend himself. Marty gets what his mother is talking about but he doesn't accept her actions. Marty's attitude is whats happining is not his buissness and that he is not capable of stopping the formidable Steve. Similarly, Marty feels like he is unable to come to terms and comunitcate with his mother, and is tired of her confronting/paranoid/overprotective attitude to the injuries and reckless behaviour and how she makes no attempt to agree with him "WHy didn't he do something, anything?" The author use of similes signals to the reader Marty's confusion and, in equal measure, his frusatration that Aaron is the helpless victim. In this scene the pratryel of bullying is conveyed in a realistic manner and is shown in a way a teenage audience can relate.

In conclusion, the author represents the issue of teen bullying successfully. He was able to do this by charachterzation and language features. It show how people in the story experiance with greater detail. These show and makes the reader fell sympathy and pity for the characters like Aaron hwo gets bullied by his older brother. It also makes us fell antipathy/hate for Steve who bullies Aaron. Mounfield demonstrates/shows us the sterotypical bully in the story, abusive and cruel.