English stolen car quotes

Stolen car eye description

• “Golden laughter of the sun shone from his yellow eyes” - metaphor + personification

• Description of the policeman’s eyes = “cruel” and “dark” - gothic imagery

• Prejudice Johnny experience = “smart little n**ger”

• Effect of the prejudice/abuse = “murky eyes, dull, mull coloured as a river in winter. Angry as one too. So much dirt in the water now” - simile + metaphor

Stolen car environment description

• Dark + grotesque description of Perth is presented

• “red and white houses pimple the hills” - double entendre: ‘foreign’ + metaphor

• “a new savageness, the city itself, squirms like the awakening pupae of some cruel giant insect” - metaphor and simile

• Effect of Perth + urbanisation due to colonisation = “The sun, his sun, has quite gone now, and he is cold and a little afraid in this dead place that doesn’t seem so alive” - polysyndeton + metaphor

Stolen Car description of eyes example

In Stolen Car, the narrative opens with a description of the protagonist Johnny, as exemplified through the use of the metaphor and personification "Golden laughter of the sun shone from his yellow eyes”. Johnny journeys to Perth wherein he experiences the harsh reality of stereotypes and racism by being accused of a crime he did not commit. The accusing policeman's eyes are described through gothic imagery as "cruel" and "dark". Later in the narrative, he encounters further prejudice from policeman, with one calling Johnny a "smart little n**ger". Johnny is abused again, resulting in the new description of Johnny's eyes as "murky eyes, dull, muddy coloured as a river in winter. Angry as one too. So much dirt in the water now". The use of the simile and the metaphor in the quote reinforces…

Stolen car description of environment example

In the introduction after the warm and sunny description of Johnny, the mood dramatically changes as a dark and grotesque description of Perth city is presented. The narrator speaks of suburbia saying "red and white houses pimple the hills" and "a new savageness, the city itself, squirms like the awakening pupae of some cruel giant insect". After entering the city, polysyndeton and metaphor are used to create a new description of Johnny: "The sun, his sun, has quite gone now, and he is cold and a little afraid in this dead place that doesn't seem so alive”.