NOTES : 

• Reported speech: Reported Speech (also called Indirect Speech) is used to communicate what someone else said, but without using the exact words. A few changes are necessary; often a pronoun has to be changed and the verb is usually moved back a tense, where possible.
• Idiolect – the speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
• Do different fonts also create an idiolect here?
• Mary – mother? Housekeeper?

Idiolect

• Look for repetitions of words or phrases
• Look for idioms
• Look for sentence structure or grammatical choices
• Full stops? Pauses?
• Pronunciations 
• Use of certain words – jargon colloquialisms 
• Cultural connotations of links 
• Gender 
• Class 

BUT in the context of this is cut outs 

 

Flashback – but how is it used

 

Norma narrating :

P125 someone very like her – assuming this is a common stereotype in society 

P126 big horrible things – judgemental and condescending 

P 127 Dirty yellow – norma

125 – popper in – norma

126 funny eye that looked somewhere else  Irony – norma

127 popping in – norma

P125 like all housewives, Mrs price works a seven day week and mostly loves it – norma

126 proper food – alludes to class assumptions – norma

128 charlotte Russe – Types of Charlotte Russe: – norma

This dessert was originally created as a way to use leftover or stale bread. Some historians think that this sweet dish took its name from Queen Charlotte, known as being a supporter of apple growers. – shows her cultural background – type of cake 

P 128 mary said – reported speech

P 128 irony of wearing wrong glasses therefore could not see and could not make enough chains – what is the irony here ? perhaps that mary could not see what was going on in her own house?

P129 no fairy godmother or magic elves to help her out – gives insight into her cultural background of fairy tales- norma

All of the above is a flashback to give insight into Norma/Roy’s background 

129 spam handed – colloquial or slang origins – very uk spam is fake meat therefore alludes not being proficient – but uk slang – norma 

129 – pips is idiolect – narrator 

130 – reported speech about mrs prices observations on roy coming and going

131 reported speech and humour about the gordons                                 

P134 reported speech

P 134 reflects marys character as she responds to mrs price’s persistence on who the woman staying was 

P134 ‘acting in a play’ -irony

P136 well you probably won’t need three if there is only two of you – irony

P136 – “gets wind of something” – idiolect

P137 – Mary’s dialogue – protectiveness over her son 

P137 reported speech (HOUSE → shows how she looks down on the Prices) 

P142 – “Mary likes him to save the paper so it can be used for next day’s sandwiches”

P 185 mary gives roy stockings and suspender belt- “

P188 – “Have you asked her OUT yet?” – idiolect

P189 – “Tell us all about her”

P189 – “deliciously normal” – irony

P189 – ALL dialogue – she is happy about Eve and sees normality 

P190 – “Right, let’s get you measured” → referring to herself in a collective way, idiolect way (RIGHT)

P190 – “We’re going to have to look at this a few times, I expect” – reported speech

P193 – “Right so we need to add a bit extra in the back” — RIGHT

P194 – “Really? You don’t sound cold-y” 

P194 – “Oh, go on, then”

 

Comedy and Tragedy

Are fonts important for this?

 

Write 3 paras on the three questions:

How does Rawle use flashbacks, dialogue reported speech and irony to create the character of Mary?

• Character Mary
  • Mother of Norma/Roy
  • Housekeeper
  • Protective of Norma/Roy
  • Wants Roy to be normal (happy about Eve)
  • Shown through norma’s memory of growing up and mrs price incidents
  • Complicit in Roys desire to dress as a woman
• And then use the techniques to link to that establishment
  • Irony
    • the situation where Mary becomes more comfortable with Roys strangeness as he demonstrates more normality outside the home
    • Irony of having been complicit in Roy’s development of his alter – ego 
  • Flashbacks – to get an idea of Mary’s character when Roy was growing up 
  • Dialogue – reflects her feeling of discomfort with the prices and their intrusion and some snobbiness
  • Reported speech – reflects the significance and influence of Mary in Norma’s life – reported speech and dialogue in this are both from Norma’s perspective 

How does Rawle use the character of Mary to suggest the boundary between comedy and tragedy?

• Highlighting the absurdity of the situation that mary has been placed in which is highlighted when mrs price comes the door and all the references to her having to act in a play
• This is a more general answer akin to a conclusion 

What do you notice about Mary’s linguistic fingerprint? Her idiolect?

• Reflects her class, culture, place she is in ie uk lower middle class background 
• Linguistic fingerprint : way someone speaks, her idiolect

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• Write the three questions and do mini answers but try and use PEE in those answers.
• Points should all relate to her character
• Evidence is listed
• The techniques are the explanations