Jasper Jones As A Bildungsroman

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we soon see how Charlie perceives Jasper, his fellow accomplice; "I think he's the most honest person in this town". This bold bond, formed in secrecy, exposes young Charlie to ever-looming maturity, a window into a world that leaves the truth bare and reveals the faults that lie within the streets of Corrigan. Charlie has yet to experience this in its full force but Jasper's presence prompts the rise of inquisitive questions in his mind.

A cry for help from the town's half-caste misfit triggers the Charlie's development into adulthood. We the reader get to see the gradual evolution of moral understanding that he endures as he observes the world the adults. This quote from just after the night he sees Laura Wishart's body, "This night has pickpocketed me of all the things I can never get back," demonstrates how Charlie has suddenly realised that he just lost his childhood and that he can never get it back. Unhindered by this fact, he enlists the help of literature to help him ...

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don't know shit about what it is to be me,".

Another person we see is Jeffery Lu, a Vietnamese immigrant whose family has moved to Australia to get away from the Vietnam War. His family is judged and bullied because the ill-educated and racist population of Corrigan see's all Vietnamese people as enemies an impact of the Vietnam war going on at the time when the novel is set. Jeffery Lu is almost someone that Charlie idolises. As Charlie says "Maybe he is the bravest of us all". Jeffery is seen as brave and unrelenting in the face of ultimate bigoted judgement. It is made clear in the novel, that every time something bad is done to Jeffery he hurts inside however he does not let that ...

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