![]() ![]() Charlie’s best friend Jeffrey is Vietnamese hence is mistreated for this reason, but Jeffrey is extremely talented at cricket as told by Charlie. “It requires some special sort of pathology to give it the kind of devotion that Jeffrey shows”. Jeffrey Lu and his family faced a great amount of discrimination from the town of Corrigan, for one reason which was there background. The townspeople of Corrigan have designed their own way of how their community should look, not accepting the Jasper Jones for something which he can’t change. “In families within Corrigan, he’s the first name to be blamed for all manners of trouble”, this further proves that he’s used as scapegoat for the troublemakers. There shouldn’t be anything wrong with being a half-caste, but the small town makes it so, Jasper is aware of and could not think of any other ideas which led him to run away to seek help. He’s lazy and unreliable.” Jasper was getting criticised and blamed for Laura’s death which got him arrested without any evidence against him, ignoring that he might actually be innocent. ![]() Within the town he’s described as “a Thief, a liar, a Thug, a Truant. ![]() Jasper Jones was alone a ‘half caste’ making him an easy target to discriminate against. ![]()
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