Malorie Blackman- Noughts and Crosses Personal Response

Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman The oblige Noughts and Crosses is a sitting on the fence sort of chief(prenominal)tain for me. The writing of it hooked you in and made you think but I absolutely hated what happened in the end. The plot was good but as I said I didnt like some things that occurred during the novel, like the fact C in allum dying made me want to scream and rip my hair out (I did constrain 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 love ) I hated/ loved that close the book. My favourite characters would have to be the guys of Callums family, especially Callum. Partly because of his complete it is how it is attitude and his loyalty. Even though some people probably hated Jude, I quite liked him. He had a tough attitude, but really he was quite vulnerable, especially at the end when hes pretty much lost all his family because of the Crosses.I also 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 slip up, originally resulting in him going to the gallows to hang. Even though he ended up not hanging he walked up to the gallows expecting death. And not backing 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 certainly disliked her parents, most of all her father. But I started to tolerate her mother near the end when you find out she paid for the lawyer to help Ryan. My favourite scene would have to be. I actually dont have a favourite scene, lol The setting of the book was based 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 s wapped the places of the people in charge so people would feel or presuppose 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. render and death made a big part of this book, constantly having to choose between love, family, religion and your race. It was a massive balancing act for the two main characters, Sephy andCallum, who you got to study in depth of how they thought and what choices they always had to make 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 pile 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. Even though it is made up, the more you think about it, the possibility of it happening i s actually quite possible, scarily enough. Arianna Hogan