“Jellicoe Road,” by Melina Marchetta is a very unusual book about the parallels between the lives of two groups of children, and the effect that their decisions and the unique place called Jellicoe Road has on them. The complex social interactions, foreshadowing, and strange clues in the story makes the it slightly difficult to understand, especially at first, but it gives the novel a powerful effect.The main character is Taylor Markham, a seventeen year old girl who was abandoned by her mother at a gas station on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven. Fortunately she was found by a family friend named Hannah and taken to live at Jellicoe School, a selective state run school for clever children with troubled pasts.
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Nathan
I had a similar reaction to the seemingly confusing beginning of this novel. I like the way you put it--that the novel makes its reader figure things out as the character living it would.
I agree. I like the way Melina Marchetta pulled that off. The reader gradually becomes attached to Taylor, so that in the end you can see things from her mind as she does.
Her initial confusion is slowly sharpened until she understands the story behind her life even as the reader does.
Thanks for commenting Jeanne.
Nathan
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it was definately hard at first to understand what was going on in the novel but as you keep reading everything begins to make sense, it really was a lovely book to read. :))
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