Morris Gleitzman communicates his idea that by making something that isn’t funny, upsetting and boring and adds humour to his story’s like in two weeks with the queen he makes colin a naive narrator when his brother has cancer and make colin go to england and go to buckingham palace and make the queen give him the best doctor in the world through the events of his novel.
In particular, when in another one of his novels Once about a jewish boy hidden away in a catholic orphanage by his parents while going through the holocaust and thinks his parents will come back to get him and starts making up stories in his mind like because his parents know he likes carrots he thinks that they have put it in his supper.
This proves that he will take an upsetting story and add humour in the from of a naive narrator ( like colin or felix from once) and through a series of events both characters very determined to do anything for their cause having a character, Colin going from being jealous of his brother “Serves you right” thought Colin ” for having three lots of ice cream with your chrissie pudding.” This shows that in the start of the book (page 7) that he was very jealous and selfish and then becoming a caring and selfless brother who only cares about his family “I know you’re really busy here and everything but you’ve got to come to Australia and fix up Luke. They reckon he’s gunna die but I reckon they’re being slack and you can do it, I know you can.” This shows that he is becoming a better person and would interrupt a doctor’s round just to get him to cure his brother.
Morris Gleitzman has two morals in his story that gay people should be treated the same way as anyone else is treated and shouldn’t be treated in any other manner.
As the book continues Colin isn’t the only one growing up his cousin, Alistair goes from being shy and scared to brave and fearless. ” Alistair slammed his fist onto the table cups, saucers and both his parents jumped into the air.” He’s going,’said Alistair, looking steadily at his mother and father, ‘ and that’s final”.
This shows that he is starting to speak up for him for himself.
In my conclusion using my evidence to show how Colin has changed into a thoughtful person.
April 18, 2013 at 2:29 pm
There is a lot of work and I can tell that you have put one hundred percent .