MALORIE BLACKMAN NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Stephanie fox 25

MALORIE BLACKMAN NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Stephanie fox

25 sephy ◦ Sephy and Callum are trying to talk about what happened it didn’t really go every well for Sephy as she starts to question her self about how noughts/white people were treated differently and how the police officer didn’t want to let this go and was trying to intimate Callum but it didn’t work. Also she had started to understand more as the days go gone about her father’s job and how much racism was going on and she didn’t know it was happening and how what she reads in the paper is real but she doesn’t want to believe it is true and she is looking silly and embarrassed now. Callum is wondering why anyone would beat her up and what happened at school.

26 callum ◦ Lynette drops the bomb shell and comes clean with the Mc. Gregor household after there was a fight between them. Callum pushing the door open after school to find what I think is a mini ww 3 but Jude his brother was shouting at his sister Lynette Callum thinks that Lynette is just daydreaming as he doesn’t know what has happened to her as she doesn’t talk to them and just isn’t the same as the rest of the family Jude said a lot of things about her that weren’t true so Lynette hit Jude because of all the thing he had then Jude reacts to this Callum got involved and backs his sister up there is a fight between Jude and Callum. But it turns out Ryan their father has to force them apart Jude shouts at Ryan

27 Sephy ◦ Sephy asks her mum if she could have a birthday party for her 14 th, her mother agrees but this comes a shock to Sephy. She was thinking that her mother would have a go at but she guessed that for a change she was happy. She was there whilst drinking white wine and reading a book I think she was so relaxed that she couldn’t be bothered to argue with me or anyone so she agreed to avoid augment With her mother saying yes Sephy now can get to her plan her party and she needs to keep this a secret otherwise she will be in deep trouble by her mum

28 Calllum Callum's mother and father are having valid debate on a man called Alex Luther and on the General. This leads them into an argument they always seem to have but this one seems to be worse than what the others have been like. During this Callum sneaks down stairs to receive a call for Sephy, they have a special way of getting hold of each other for urgent talks but this only happens at 3 am to 3. 30 am. Callum waits to hear from Sephy and then after Callum has nearly given up she calls. She called to invite him to her birthday, but Callum asks if her mother knows she has invited him and she says no this makes Callum start to question why. She is inviting him to her birthday at her family house where her mum will see him and throw him out straight away.

29 Sephy ◦ Sephy is starting to get nervous about inviting Callum. She wishes thing were different so he could be first on her list. Due to all of this worrying she can not get to sleep, she keeps tossing and turning but nothing is helping. She is staying up all night and by doing this it shows the reader she is angry but this can also show that she is sad because she is worried about her and Callum not being allowed near each other.

30 Calllum ◦ Callum is in history lesson and his teacher is talking about how people just like them are scientists, inventors, artists and media celebrities and how they all started from the bottom and worked their way up. Mr Jason asks the class a question about scientists, pioneers and achievers. No one in the class but Callum knew the answer and when he answered them all correctly Mr Jason did not like it, so he snapped at Callum. This made Callum not want to answer anymore of Mr Jason's questions, so he did not talk for the rest of the lesson. Mr Jason said something to Callum which annoyed him and he answered him back. Callum was thrown out of the class. He was sent to the head teachers office. While Callum was standing outside he saw Mrs Paxton and he told her what had just happened in class. Mrs Paxton said Mr Jason is being like this towards him because his mother was a nought.

31 Sephy ◦ Sephy and her sister Minnie over hear their mother and father arguing after tea. Jasmine her mother sent them up to bed straight after tea to do homework but both of them sat on the stairs. During the argument to find out what was going on. They father has a son older than Minnie and that he is seeing another woman, when Jasmine finds out she starts so threaten him with divorce papers this makes Kamal (dad) happy and he says some hurtful things that he will regreat later on in life. Minnie has hear enough so she goes to her room but Sephy wants to hear more so she stays put until she hear her fathers foot steps getting louder. she is panicing so she darts up the stairs as fast as she can to her room and grabs her jumper before running back down and out of the front door before anyone could stop her. She runs to the beach where she sees Callum sat waiting for her. Callum is told that he cannot come to her party and that the only reason he was coming in the first place was to hurt her mother and old friends like they hurt her feelings. Callum understands and accepts it. She promises that they will do something else instead just them two I hope she keeps her promise.

32 Callum ◦ Callum and Lynette his sister have a deep conversation. Callum is led in bed thinking about what Mrs Paxson had told him when his sister, Lynette knocks on the door, she asks Callum how does she keep going. Callum replies because I know what I want. Callum want to be someone and make a difference to the world. She ask but what one more, he reply's ‘to be someone, because to be someone you will have money, a nice house and will be respected by both noughts and Crosses and he says he will do this by not giving up and doing his best at school and working his way up the ladder like what Mr Jason was telling the class. When Lynette leaves his room she leaves his door open, he does he notices Lynette going into her room and shutting her door behind her before she does he sees her pain and sadness and prevents him from seeing her.

33 sephy ◦ Sephy and her sister are talking about the argument they heard their mother and father had. When Sephy walked in to Minnies room she noticed that she had been crying, she was about to ask but she already knew the answer. Sephy brings up the fact that she thinks that their parents might be getting a divorce Minnie tells her she being silly and that their father always threatens their mother with it, Sephy quickly intnterups and states that their mother was making the threat this time. Minnie is now not sure. Sephy then brings up the fact they have a bother and Minnie let slip that she found out 3 years go. Sephy asks why she was never told and says that she want to find her brother maybe to ask a question or two but Minnie reminds her that this is partly the reason their mother is how she is. Sephy still continues to try and find out for and says that she is going to go and ask her father when Minnie hears this she flips and tells Sephy shell not ask their father just incase anyhing might happen between him and the girls.