Through this association with Jasper and with this desire to become like him, Charlie is influenced by his actions and begins to change the way he behaves. In addition, the metaphor of the “bubble” also mirrors how he is leaving behind his childhood as blowing bubbles is for children and can also foreshadow how he will not enjoy the world he is discovering. ![]() The metaphor of the 'bubble' bursting symbolises how he is again leaving this fragile naïve perception that he had of the world and is evolving into having this stable perception of the world that he is shocked to know exists. The second act of Jasper leading Charlie to lose his adolescent innocence is when he takes him to see Laura Wishart’s dead body as it leads to “a bubble” to “burst”, “and everything changes” for Charlie. This juxtaposition of description highlights how Charlie is different to the rest of the town as he sees the truth just like Jasper does and by Jasper coming to his window and leading him down this path of discovery makes him see Jasper as his personal goal. ![]() Silvey portrays Jasper as this ‘man’ that Charlie wants to become by constructing a positive semantic field of adjectives like “strong”, “tall” and “defined” to juxtapose how the town of “Corrigan” views this boy as a “truant”, “thief” and “thug”. When Charlie leaves the “womb” it symbolises that he is now without its prior protection leading to the acts of him losing his innocence and growing into the ‘man’ that he wishes to become. The setting of the “womb” is also used to reinforce Charlie’s metaphorical birth from having a naïve perception of the world to more of an acute understanding of its injustice. The imagery of a “foal” also portrays Charlie as evolving into this weak creature that is being led astray and also reflects how this weakness is his inability to understand the new perception of the world that Jasper acts as a catalyst for him discovering. Furthermore demonstrated through the use of zoomorphism, “like a foal”, which connotes how this action of breaking the rules symbolises Charlie’s rebirth into an adult world by this first act of losing his innocence. Silvey has cleverly constructed this first interaction with Jasper to highlight how uncomfortable Charlie is with breaking the rules and how this action of sneaking out of his room is foreign to him. At the start of the novel, Jasper lures Charlie out of his room, which is described as “my fall from the window is a little like a foal being born” even though Charlie longs “to sit safely in the womb of my room”. Silvey constructs the characterisation of Jasper Jones to act as a catalyst for Charlie’s bildungsroman, as the relationship that Charlie has with Jasper causes his behaviour to change alongside losing his innocence. ![]() Throughout our lives, we have relationships that can influence our behaviours and beliefs.
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