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English: 'Trash’: 2 of 2

'Trash' Example PEAD paragraph:

Non-negotiables How does Mulligan build tension?

The idea or situation something relates to helping it to be
Context
understood. Mulligan uses violent imagery to make the abduction
The way an author or actor describes or shows what a character seem more tense and shocking on page 56. This is
Characterisation
is like. demonstrated by ‘a policeman grabbed him by the neck
Coming to a conclusion about something based on and threw him off’. The powerful verbs ‘grabbed’ and
Inference
the information you already have. ‘threw’ have violent connotations and emphasise that

Foreboding A strong feeling something bad is going to happen. the police are handling the boys roughly and without
care. ‘Grabbed’ implies that they didn’t expect it to
Narrative voice The voice of the person telling the story. happen, had no warning and that the police are
deliberately violent. This makes the reader feel pity for
Perspective A particular way of thinking about something.
Raphael as we see how traumatising it was for him to
Grow your vocabulary see Gardo handled so roughly. It also makes us fear what
will happen next. Mulligan may have done this to
Shanty A small rough hut that people live in. emphasise how the police in Behala disregard the boys'
age and use brutality to get their way, which contrasts to
Anonymous Not revealing who you are.
the police in the UK. We’re told at the beginning of this

Relentless Something bad that never stops. chapter ‘now it gets serious’ and so we know that from
the moment Raphael is taken it’s no longer a game for
Behaving in a way that is morally wrong, dishonest or illegal in
Corrupt the boys and they are in real danger.
return for money or power.

Implicated Involved in or responsible for a crime. Key questions to remember when writing PEADs:

Notorious Well known for doing something bad.
What is the writer doing? (Point)
Imminent Will happen very soon. How do you know? (Evidence and Analysis)
Why are they doing it? (Develop)
Conduct Behaving in a certain way.