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Influences on Jasper Jones: The author Craig silvey is seen to be bring forth American writers from the 20th century which impacted Japsper Jones as an inspiration. He also referenced Mark Twain and Jack Karourac as an allusion. Mark Twain: Twain was a prominent writer at the time of the 20th century, he was known for his famous book adventures of Huckleberry finn. The book covered controversial topics such as racism from the protagnist’s point of view, Jasper Jones correlates with the themes of Adventures of Huckerlberry finn. Turman Capote: American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, though he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel In Cold Blood, which, together with Breakfast at Tiffany’s, remains his best-known work. Charlie cannot read. ‘Every time I opened it I felt as though insects were crawling over my scalp and down my neck’. Truman Capote’s book Breakfast At Tiffany’s is also mentioned several times in the novel. It is Eliza’s favourite book and she quotes directly from it on p. 249 re ‘The Mean Reds’ Charlie often mentions Capote in the novel as a role model, someone that he has aspirations to be like. To write novels, leave behind a small town and live a cosmopolitan life in New York City with Eliza. Harper Lee: In 1959, Harper Lee finished the manuscript for her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. Soon after, she helped fellow writer and friend Truman Capote compose an article for The New Yorker which would evolve into his nonfiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood. There are many parallels between Jasper Jones and TKAM. Both deal with racism in small country towns, both explore the disconnect between law and justice and both create a world of moral opposites that somehow co-exist TKAM tells the narrative from the perspective of Scout, an 8 year old girl. Jasper Jones tells the story from a young teenage boy. Charlie frequently refers to the narrative, expressing admiration for Atticus Finch, the novel's moral compass. J.D. Salinger: Jerome David Salinger was an American novelist best known for The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951. Before the book's release, Salinger wrote many short stories in Story magazine and served in WWII. The story's protagonist is an unreliable narrator, yet his caustic dissatisfaction with society and cynicism towards life is a distinct narrative voice that has influenced many writers. Charlie in

Jasper Jones is much more dependable than Holden but experiences similar pain and the realisation on how the world operates under much suffering. Jack Kerouac: American novelist, poet, and leader of the Beat movement whose most famous book, On the Road, had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits. On the Road captured the spirit of its time as no other work of the 20th century had since F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. His novel On the Road explores the life of a college student, Sal, who goes on adventures with his friend Dean. This mimics Charlie’s aspirations to leave Corrigan for a transient lifestyle with Eliza and Jasper. The relationship between Sal and Dean can be seen between Charlie and Jasper. Other novels mentioned in Jasper Jones: -

Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (1894). The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (1948). Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934). The Innocents abroad by Mark Twain (1869). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962). Patterson’s Curse by Wesley Bucktin (1965)....