THE MARK BY EDITH BULBRING MAIN CHARACTERS CHARACTERISATION

THE MARK BY EDITH BULBRING MAIN CHARACTERS & CHARACTERISATION 1

JULIET SEVEN (“Ettie”) PROTAGONIST AND FIRST PERSON NARRATOR Ø Acts to _________herself only but is overprotective of Kitty Ø Intelligent; Loves to ______ Ø Is _________; always looking for a way to escape the system Ø Loathes her circumstances Ø Main aim: remove the ______ Ø Employed as a _______in the home of Master and Mistress Ø Carer to _________ [MAJOR PLOT TWIST here] Ø Love interest: ______(a locust) 2

HANDLER XAVIER Ø A ________ character Ø Orphan warden’s son Ø In ______ of Kitty, Ettie and others Ø At first appears coldly _________ & self-centred Ø Ettie views him as _________ Ø She does not _____ him Ø Later, it is revealed that he 1. ______ deeply for Kitty because of a promise he made 1. He is an important part of the _________ 3

KATHERINE SEVEN (“Kitty”) Ø Ettie’s _________ and co-conspirator Ø Ettie loves her; feels _____ to her for saving her from being burnt Ø Ettie believes Kitty to be helpless & _______ BUT Ø Kitty is _____ of the Resistance; wants to find The Machine to remove the Mark Ø _________ and intelligent Ø Knows how to use her ______ to infiltrate the Mangerian hierarchy 4

NICOLAS ØSon of the Guardian of __________ Ø______ years old ØAn apprentice ________ ØDifferent from other snobby Mangerians: ØRemains __________ ØIndependent thinker; does not _____ to the hierarchy ØAlso wants to remove the Mark ØEttie’s _____ interest 5

MISTRESS, MASTER & LARISSA ØMistress and Master always seem in _______ with each other ØWish to _______ own families’ power and traditional roles ØMistress submissive to Master ØLarissa is their ________ ØAt first: utterly ________, malicious, cruel, _________, manipulative ØSpoilt yet _____ Ø_____ up to Ettie eventually Ø Major plot twist between Ettie and Larissa! 6

Minor characters READER Ø ____, old man Ø Teaches Ettie to _______ Ø Ettie “borrows” books from him WITCH Ø 14 fingers Ø Speaks of the _____ _ THE UPPER Ø The ______ CRUST: of society Ø Ø Ø NELSON Ø Part of the ________ _ Ø Ettie knows very little about him THE MANGERIAN & THE POSH _______ and dominate everybody else _______ everybody else All other levels of society exist to ______ the Mangerian families are intent to keep the power to themselves The _________controls all 7

Categories of Workers LOCUSTS MARKET NAGS PULAKS _______ force; brutal and vicious Sell _____ in the market _______ vehicles to which they are physically attached MUTI NAGS DRAINERS SCAVVIES Provide some form of _______to the people Deal with ______ disposal Sea scavengers; lift _____ from an underwater city which had been covered by the rising ocean 8

ROLE OF NARRATOR ØNovel uses __________ narrator ØEverything filtered through Ettie’s ___________ ØEttie’s ________ of her world are given ØEttie’s _______ are portrayed (fears and longings) 9