A
Great Yarn
In this week’s Write Essential episode of Reel Time, the crash test dummies spin a great
yarn. Here's another one:
The Significance
of the Apple
Jasmine eats a lot of apples. They have significance.
The apple is a purpose-filled literary
device. It imparts information about
Jasmine’s physical dimension. The first
time she eats an apple, it’s in the pocket of her school uniform. The second time, it is not mentioned how she
happens to have it in her hand, but she and Cassie are sitting outside the
local shops across from their school. It
can be inferred that she has bought it at the shop, choosing it over the other
kind of ‘food choices’ that her friend, Cassie, makes.
This in itself provides social / emotional
dimension to the character, Jasmine. Her
choice is clear and simple. An apple –
an afternoon practise, maybe? Every afternoon she seems to be eating one.
The apple therefore, has metaphorical
meaning. Why an apple? Why doesn’t she pull a banana from her
pocket? Why isn’t she peeling an orange
as she sits and talks to Cassie, sucking up and splashing its juices around?
The apples establish relationships. The contrast between the two friends can’t
get sharper then the crunch of an apple verse an avalanche of
‘anything-chocolate’. The relationship
between Jasmine and her mum is established over an apple. The humorous tone of
the tale begins with an apple. A bulge,
left forgotten, quietly and unnoticed, is much like Jasmine’s spirem
dimension. The way she eats her apples,
spitting out its seeds, throwing its core into the river with a few choice
words or chewing it over as she attempts to describe what being a spirem is
like, are all descriptive metaphors that give her character substance.
Meet any significant apples lately?
A stone from the
hand of a friend is an apple (Moroccan proverb)
There's small
choice in rotten apples (Shakespeare)
Millions saw the
apple fall, but Newton
was the one who asked why (Baruch)
Jasmine Neutron Star is the first book of
the Star Ways Chronicles. It is a novel
most suitable for young adult and teenager readers of speculative, fantasy /
science fiction, urban fantasy. It is a
humorous account of Jasmine’s first adventure into the world of light – Quanta. She is a spirem – a new kind of superhero –
and perfect for the sphere of Terra.
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