Points

Structure
Context

Languag
e

Characte
r

Evidence
Family/historical film
Narrator at end
Text New Orleans
B+W TV mid 20th
Century
Legislation time
period
Sense of community
Changes over timeto
isolate/neglect the
family
Colloquial
language/accents
Baby girl.
Girl!
Little girls playing up
a little
Give mama some
sugar.
Ruby intelligent,
very much like Scout
- Innocence
- Changes to
Mum loving, worried
Dad distant,
dominant
People protesting
angry
- Change of
character priest
takes child to
school breaks
free from crow
Mrs Stein dynamic
character changes
from sweet to turning
them away
Ms ? dynamic
character changes
from going against Ms
? to helping her

Explain

Dad is a dynamic
character because he has
changed from being a
very calm distant man to
being a very emotional,
involved and distressed
character and he has
been re-positioned from a
mechanic to a war
veteran, which has
influenced his personality
change.
The director uses stock
characters to create a 1
dimensional character
that we dont sympathise
with. She does this by
having their view be
either very strong but as a
mass, or very vague/not
emotionally based. An
example of a stock
character is the mob of
protesters. She keeps
these characters as stock
characters to keep a
distance from the

audience to the character

and therefore not making
the audience sympathise
with the character. Since
we dont know the
characters background/s
and we just see them as a
mob abusing a little girl.
Meaning

Segregation of class
and race
Religion