ipl-logo

An Alternate Reality In Naughts And Crosses By Malorie Blackman

1032 Words5 Pages

Naughts & Crosses is a novel written by Malorie Blackman. The novel follows the lives of the two main characters and their relationship in a discriminative society. The novel explores an alternate reality in which society discriminates light-skinned people (Noughts) and which dark-skinned people (Crosses) have the upper hand. The main characters are Callum McGregor (Nought) and Persephone (Sephy) Hadley (Cross). Callum is the son of Ryan and Margaret (Meggie) McGregor and has two other siblings, Jude and Lynette. Ryan belongs to an organization of extremists against the Crosses. Meggie used to work for Mrs Hadley as a nanny to her daughters, until she was fired for an unfair reason. Jude and Callum don’t have the best relationship because Jude feels that Callum is favored by his family this is because Jude had to be taken out of school because his parents couldn’t afford it but later in the story Callum gets a better education. Jude and Callums’ relationship causes many fights and even separates the family. Lynette is Callum’s sister and isn’t present very much in the book because of an incident that had happened which left her traumatized and depressed. Lynette doesn’t talk a lot in the book however, when she is present she makes the book more intriguing. Sephy is the daughter of Kamal and Jasmine Hadley and she has a sister called Minerva. Kamal Hadley is the main antagonist in the book Naughts & Crosses. He is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and is very arrogant

Show More
Related

  • Book Report Of Wait Till Helen Comes By Mary Downing Hahn

    513 Words  | 3 Pages

    The name of the book is Wait till Helen comes. The author is Mary Downing Hahn. The book has 120 pages. The type of the Book is mystery and scary.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson

    184 Words  | 1 Pages

    The book “The Devil in The White City” was composed by Erik Larson. This book re-creates the history of the Chicago’s World Fair of 1893. Larson wanted to highlight precisely what went down at the World Fair of 1893 and why everything happened. This book was actually based off of Chicago’s World Fair, as well as what happened and put his own twist on it story. The author has several purposes within this book, which is a narrative non-fiction (a history with a strong story).

    Read More

  • Summary Of St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolf

    873 Words  | 4 Pages

    She and her “pack” worry about the youngest sister Mirabella. “The pack was worried for Mirabella. Mirabella would rip foamy chunks of the church pews and replace them with ham bones and girl dander” (pg. 240). She was also a little jealous of the oldest sister Jeanette who was on the top of everyone else. “The pack hated Jeanette.

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

    486 Words  | 2 Pages

    Brian, Lori, and Jeannette are close and really trust each other and help each other get through their childhood. Maureen is rarely even with her family she's mostly at friends houses or she stays at other people's houses. Though Jeannette goes through a lot of hard times in her childhood.

    Read More

  • Mr's Lynda Murphys Sparknotes

    912 Words  | 4 Pages

    Her name is Mrs. Murphy. Mrs. Murphy is a perky, generous and caring woman, and she has a family that consists of four people not counting herself. She has a husband who Carley calls Mr. Murphy, and three sons; Daniel, Adam, and Michael Eric. Carley encounters and overcomes many obstacles during the book that mostly include her foster family, and Toni. Toni is Carley’s Broadway-obsessed friend that she meets at her new school.

    Read More

  • Jackie Robinson: The Best Baseball Player

    928 Words  | 4 Pages

    Jackie thinks of his father as harsh for leaving his mom and his four siblings. After his father’s departure, the Robison family moved to California. Edgar was the oldest of the siblings. Frank was the second oldest, Mack was the third oldest, and Willa Mae was the fourth oldest. Jackie was the youngest.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson

    658 Words  | 3 Pages

    I picked The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson as my one book to read this summer because the serial killer aspect of the novel really appealed to me as compelling and interesting. Larson tells two different stories in the novel that are tied together by happening in the same city of Chicago in the 1890s. It tells of Daniel Burnham and his determination to create something good and H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who practices great evil. This book has a meaningful impact on how I view life as it divulges the difference between good and evil. I have always thought I was a good person or at least I try to be.

    Read More

  • Harriet Jacobs Or Linda Brent

    714 Words  | 3 Pages

    She made sure she stood by Linda during all her troubles and helped to hide her in her attic. She raised Linda's children in her absence and she was loved by everyone around her. William was her brother, who was two years younger than she was, they loved each other so much that she did not allow her master know, for fear of using that against both of them. William escaped from his master while they were in the North, thinking he could not misuse that opportunity. Mr. Sands was the father of her children, who never really loved her and did not care for her and her children.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In A Dog's Purpose?

    1223 Words  | 5 Pages

    I read W. Bruce Cameron’s novel A Dog’s Purpose. This book has 180 pages. According to a customer review on Amazon,”Definitely a MUST have book.” I believe that A Dog’s Purpose is for ages 10+. The reason why I think that is because there are a few sad events and some violence that kids may not like.

    Read More

  • Prible Childhood Jeannette Research Paper

    578 Words  | 3 Pages

    The three of them stayed in abandoned building whereas the other three children had their own condos. Jeannette was working her way up to becoming a successful journalist, Brian was a police officer, and Lori, a successful artist. Maureen did not take education as serious as them and as a result, settled for temporary jobs as a bartender. In Welch, Maureen depended on neighbors to provide for her and now, in New York, she used her beauty to charm men to help her out. Yet, the boyfriends never lasted longer than the jobs (274).

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson

    739 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the late 1800s the Chicago World’s Fair was well on its way to becoming a modern marvel of the time, little did the fairgoers know that both good and a great evil lurked among them. The Devil in the White City is a historical nonfiction book written by Erik Larson, within it there lies two stories of two very different men. The tale of good follows the life of a young architect whose goal is to make an impact on the world. How will he accomplish this? By making the, “legendary 1893 World’s Fair”.

    Read More

  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find Grandmother Character Analysis

    1743 Words  | 7 Pages

    She is the one that takes charge even when her own son Bailey wanted to make decisions at the end she tend to manipulate him as well. Many things can be shown by the grandmother but as there are many other things that the reader things to find

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson

    551 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Devil in the White City was written by Erik Larson and was published in 2003. By research, Larson recreates the lives of two real men in the Chicago World Fair. He uses two different plots to show some of the history during this time. One plot line is about Daniel Hudson Burnham, the man who builds the Chicago World Fair, and the other plot is about Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, the man who is a serial killer that goes through the fair to find his victims.

    Read More

  • One For The Murphys Character Analysis

    396 Words  | 2 Pages

    This is significant because it shows that Carley thinks Mrs. Murphy is getting close to her so she keeps pushing her away. On top of Toni and Mrs. Murphy, Carley doesn't let the boys, Adam, Daniel, and Michael Eric, get close to her either. Adam and Carley don't really have that much of a relationship together. Their relationship is pretty much non-existant other than the fact that they are foster-siblings.

    Read More

  • Beyond The Veil Summary

    1248 Words  | 5 Pages

    Fatima Mernissi was born into Middle- Class family is Fes, Morocco of 1940. She earned her doctorate in 1957 studying political science at Sorbonne and at Brandeis University. Afterwards she returned to work at the Mohammed V University where she then had taught at the Faculte’ des letteres between the years 1974 and 1981 mainly on subjects such as methodology, family sociology as well as psych sociology. She earned her title as a well-known Islamic feminist that was greatly concerned with Islam and women’s role in it. Fatima Mernissi had conducted thorough investigation of the nature of the succession of Mohammed in order to verify what was written in the hadith.

    Read More

More about An Alternate Reality In Naughts And Crosses By Malorie Blackman

Open Document