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English: 'Trash’: 2 of 2                                                                                                              French: 1 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.
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