Malorie Blackman- Noughts and Crosses Personal Response

Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman The confine Noughts and Crosses is a sitting on the fence smorgasbord of intelligence for me. The writing of it hooked you in and made you think save I absolutely hated what happened in the block off. The plot was good further as I said I didnt resembling just about things that occurred during the novel, like the fact Callum dying made me want to scream and pull my hair out (I did restrain myself by the way). But the fact that I did want to do that was because you grew attached to the characters, as if they were real people. Even if theyre not, they could be in the future, you never know ) I hated/ love that about the book. My favourite characters would have to be the guys of Callums family, especially Callum. partially because of his complete it is how it is attitude and his loyalty. Even though most people believably hated Jude, I quite liked him. He had a tough attitude, but actually he was quite vulnerable, especially at the end when hes pretty much lost all his family because of the Crosses.I withal held quite a fair bit of respect (for a book character anyway) for Ryan, Callums dad. His courage for taking the consequences of Judes slight faux pas up, originally resulting in him going to the gallows to hang. Even though he terminate up not hanging he walked up to the gallows expecting death. And not documentation down from it accepting death so his family could live. I didnt like Sephy particularly in fact I hated her to be honest.I didnt like the choices that she made choosing the baby over Callum. I most sure enough disliked her parents, most of all her father. But I started to tolerate her overprotect near the end when you find out she paid for the lawyer to protagonist Ryan. My favourite scene would have to be. I actually go intot have a favourite scene, lol The setting of the book was establish sometime in the future it hasnt happened and is a possibility, who knows, it could happen (shudder). I think the book was targeted at teens.I also think that Malorie Blackman swapped the places of the people in charge so people would feel or imagine what it would be like if we were in their place, seeing as one of the main themes was racism. A few other themes were sacrifice, love and friendship and another main one,-death. turn over and death made a big part of this book, constantly having to tell apart between love, family, religion and your race. It was a massive balancing act for the both main characters, Sephy andCallum, who you got to study in depth of how they thought and what choices they always had to off as they were constantly switching between characters point of views thats how the book was written, in points of view. I think this book inspires a whole caboodle of what if? questions its not too hard to imagine how much our lives would be different, and not by a little. I think shes really trying to make us look deeper into the racism that surrounds this book. Ev en though it is made up, the more you think about it, the possibility of it happening is actually quite possible, scarily enough. Arianna Hogan