The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

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The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

How does the author construct a voice for Frank here and elsewhere in the novel? In your answer you should consider:

  • The ways in which the writers attitudes and values are conveyed to the reader
  • Features of language such as lexical, grammatical and phonological aspects
  • The context of the extract and the whole novel.

The author creates a voice for Frank by getting into the character he becomes Frank and therefore develops the characters weird and wonderful ways. He tries to convey him as a normal teenager a normal boy but as he goes deeper into the character and further into the novel you become aware that there isn’t anything normal about Frank.

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He creates a presents of the character by talking about his past within the present content for example in the passage ‘the kite had a tail of twisted magazine pages – Guns and Ammo, which I got regularly at the time. I painted the head of the dog’ He brings in points and changes from present to past frequently throughout the passage and the novel.

He uses personal pro-nouns such as I and We all the way through the book to make you constantly aware of the characters narrative voice. It’s written in first person narration, which automatically creates ...

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