How Do People and Themes, Change Throughout the Course of the Story

The Darkness show up There by genus Penelope alive Jordan Roberts How do people and themes, change through break through the course of the twaddle? The Darkness Out There combines the authors narration with the thoughts and feelings of Sandra, a girl belonging to the Good Neighbours Club. She goes to serve come to the fore an elderly lady, Mrs. Rutter, with the help of a son called Kerry. Mrs. Rutter lives in the countryside next to a wood called Packers End, fe ared by Sandra because of its supposed supernatural qualities. Mrs. Rutter has a secret, that when t sometime(a), horrifies the children.This sub narrative is of the Ger objet dart she found and left to die pole when she was a girl in the war. Penelope Lively develops Mrs. Rutters character in musical compositiony ways, with clues early on to her true self. Sandras views on the characters change by the terminus, as well as her whole come to the fore look of life as a result. There are several themes within this sh ort story this paragraph, deals firstly with the theme of vestige, and leisurely it covers the darkness around us In Packers End It was a regulate place, all whippy saplings and brambles and a gully with a dumped mattress and a bedstead and an old fridge.And, someplace, presumably, the crumbling rusty scraps of coat and cloth and . bones? This evokes a sense of desolation a hostile haunted kind of place, somewhere you dont really want to be, nasty things could happen, this sets the mood of the woods also this was set in the past and the present, at one point the w servicer graphically describes the trees when the German planing machine went down, The branch shapes to look like faces and claw hands and You couldnt quite see into, the clotted shifting depths of the place. This makes you kind of hold your breath in anticipation wondering what will happen there, you live on it is horrible from the descriptive words used. It also tells you of the girl that was by chance sexual ly assaulted by a knife wielding men so you know now it is definitely are not the place for a young girl to be. The other aspect of Darkness covered in this story is the darkness of badness, evil, human wickedness, vengeance which is never a bonny thing.The dark blot on Mrs Rutters soul for leaving that poor man to die, obviously drawn out over several age so no doubt a painful, lonely death and he was a mere boy really barely reaching manhood about 20 yrs. old, still she saw it as ok, she drub her lips she enjoyed the redemption as she signified these injured German pilots as those who in feature killed her own husband.Another underlying theme is the supernatural, and the mysterious Packers End which is often conveyed as the so called Darkness out there as her fears change throughout the story. She fears German Ghosts who are said to in fact haunt Packers End. more thanover terrific changes Sandras fears to the highest degree in correlation as We, the reader see her grow up. As the story starts she fears German Ghosts precisely as the story develops she then fears a knife wielding rapist and this shows the fears of a girl and the fears of then the fears of a woman.Furthermore, a key theme throughout the story is growing up as we see Sandra and Kerry realising the changes there body is going through as Sandra her breast popping out her shirt shows the stages of puberty her body is going through as her character becomes more developed mentally so does she physically as she begins to notice the changes happening with her body. Kerry is the same describing his chin covered in acne Her survey of Kerry changes as lively further develops his character as Sandra does not really know Kerry, but she shares her friends tactual sensation of him, Kerry Stevens that none of her lot reckoned much on.But at the end of the story she changes her mind. Kerry seems a procedure of a stereotype because he works part-time in a garage, and will have a full-time job the re when he leaves school. He identifies Sandras dad by the make and colour of his cable car. But provided lively suggests clues that suggest Kerry is not as Sandra sees him, for example, he is ready to spend his free time share old people, and he asks Mrs. Rutter what she wants them to do, then gets on with it steadily. At the end of the story however it is Kerry who takes the initiative, and passes judgement on Mrs. Rutter. In Sandras eyes he had grown he had got older and larger Which furthers the point that Sandra had in fact misjudged, Kerry but this furthermore foreshadows him growing up through the course of the story. Another key point of the story is when he offers her a piece of the Aero bar before he has some himself a subtle message, of which foreshadows the end of the story showing his unselfish nature. adept of the ways Mrs. Rutters character is portrayed by Penelope Lively is through her environment, both historically and geographically. The house is introduced se nding out two different messages. One is that of a quaint homely place.This can be recognized through the descriptions of the china ornaments, big-eyed flop-eared rabbits and beribboned kittens and flowery milkmaids and a pair of naked chubby children wearing daisy chains. Firstly, this gives the impression of a cuddly grandmother figure, but then the picture is broken with the mention of the smell of cabbage. This chin-wagging conflicts with the otherwise friendly chance to suggest something is not rite. The house reflects Mrs. Rutters character. An example of this is her eyes investigated quick as mice. Later, the house mirrors this comment by the author describing that it smelt of damp and mouse.Animals and flowers are frequently mentioned in the description of the ornaments and her sack out of plants, You should see the wood in spring, with all the bluebells. This constant reference to nature implies there is a standoff with Mrs. Rutter, for nature is changeable and not alwa ys as it seems. There is also evidence to suggest she is an old lady whose mind is still stuck in the past, such as her collection of old calendars and pictures torn from magazines. This could by and by explain why her memory of the German plane and dying soldier is still vivid as ever. The effect of what Mrs.Rutter says and does also reveals sides of her character. She welcomes Kerry and Sandra into her house. But rite at the root there is a contrast in description, a creamy smiling pool of a face in which her eyes snapped and darted sounds friendly and console but subliminally uneasy and then later sinister as her character becomes more developed. Shes a very judgmental woman. She sends the boy straight away outside to do the manual work and leaves Sandra the light chores indoors. She makes conversation with the girl, but not with Kerry, supposeing hell have nothing interesting to say.This is because she doesnt think much of his ambitions, smiling erroneously while he tells h er that he wants to work as a car mechanic. She insults him, well, I expect thats good steady money if youd nothing special in mind. Sugar? then moves on quickly to a gesture of hospitality, trying to conceal the jibe aimed at Kerry. This is also a key theme throughout the story the ideal of certain roles and pre-conceived stereotypes of what a man or woman should be, Mrs. Rutter upholds very traditional stereotypes. Shes patronizing too, with comments like Youre a dwarfish dress maker, too, and Chocky? She asks Sandra to offer Kerry a chocolate too, but has already forgotten his name Take them out and see if whats-s-name would like one? showing his insignificance in her mind. One reason why she does this may be because she has no children of her own, so she goes on stereotypical ideas. She also makes the reader feel uneasy, Mind your pretty skirt, invest it up a bit, theres only me to see if youre showing a bit of bum. This provokes the thought that she has a slightly warped m ind. She starts to tell Sandra about her husband who was killed in the war. He died rite at the beginning, and she hasnt formed any relationships since.This can make the reader feel a lowly bit sympathetic towards her. Penelope Lively lets us know what others think of Mrs. Rutter as Kerry builds a visibility on her character when he talks with Sandra. He shows his dislike of the woman, I dont go much on her and I dunno. The way she talks and that. Sandra encourages him to feel sorry for her by telling him of her tragedy, but he explains that Theres lots of people done that dismissing the excuse for her peculiar and disturbing bearing by implying that she wasnt the only one to loose somebody in the war.The way Mrs. Rutter always watches Sandra and glisten from the cushions gives an uneasy feel towards her. When Kerry returns inside Mrs. Rutter begins her anecdote. He asks if she saw the plane come down and she chuckles, seeming to channel in the idea. She explains how her and he r sister went to investigate the scene and was only going to get help if it was an allied plane. This alarms Kerry. Her squirm side becomes more apparent when she says We cheered, I can tell you as they light upd it was German. Sandra is alarmed and quips how indefinable it was, but Mrs.Rutter, who disregards her discomfort, abruptly interrupts her she is so involved in telling the story. She tries to soften what she is saying by sugaring the pill, for example friendly additives such as my duck to unsettling sentences. She refers to the injured man in the broken plane as that site. She mentions nothing about the man himself but just remarks how it wasnt a pretty site. She is unmoved when the German was crying mutter, mutter. This shows she is a cold, heartless woman. She recollects easily how she left the man in pain because it was raining.This shows she has no feeling of mutual human kindness and doesnt feel stimulate to help. Again, she is not bothered with the fact he is in his late teens. Which shows her becoming more and more long-distance from her grandmother stereotype, showing how lively makes the reader question the fact that not all as it in fact seems. Mrs. Rutter is bitter and resentful because of the death of her husband. She delights in the Germans death, I thought, oh no, you had this coming to you, mate, theres a war on. She seems surprised when Kerry and Sandra suddenly get up to leave, disgusted with her tale.She has no remorse and doesnt realize there was anything wrong with what she did, her conscience still not activated all these years later. Rite from the beginning there had been implicit clues to her nasty inner character, not just from the story she told which revealed it explicitly towards the end. Penelope Lively through other means, like metaphors, reveals the character. Like her body, her personality is not clear-cut. The author suggests this when she explains she seemed composed of circles. Introduced as a cottage loaf of a woman, gives the misleading impression of a warm, traditional, safe, chunky, old woman.But following this is in fact another metaphor, with a face below which chins collapsed one into another, implicitly meaning she had different guises, was false and two- faced. Someone not to be trusted. On balance, it seems that Mrs. Rutter was a twisted old lady, unable to let go of the bitterness she acquired from her husbands killing and sick because of the fact she relished in the idea of the young German soldier left to die. Her historical background, the fact she lived through the horrors of war is no excuse.She believes herself to be an innocent old lady blind to her own faults and separated from the outside world. Penelope Lively used various movie techniques to skilfully convey the character of Mrs. Rutter well. Also by the end of the novel, Mrs. Rutters character development changes almost full circle as she is converted from an old popper to what Kerry calls her a bitch. This is used by lively to convey the ideal that not all things are as they seem. And it is not in fact the darkness out there but in fact the darkness within people, and as we reveal more and more of Mrs.Rutters character we can clearly see a warped women, who left soul to die, with no element of remorse what so ever. In conclusion, a reason why the original thoughts of Mrs. Rutter were so misleading was because Sandra didnt realize her disguise. The Darkness Out There was a collaboration of 1st and third person text. Unless the audience was very analytical and close readers, they would generally go along with what Sandra was thinking, they wouldnt know any better. When Mrs. Rutter is exposed by her evil characteristics the audience learns and was guilty with Sandra.They make the same mistakes of stereotyping as her. As a result, they are more emotionally involved and affected by the moral ending message. The themes and people almost change completely as the fears of Sandra develop from ghosts to in fact the darkest part of peoples souls. Sandra becomes forced to question everything she believes in like Kerry a pre-conceived nobody in her eyes but is in fact a good person who offers her chocolate before in fact himself showing an unselfish nature. The title is of course used to question are innermost fears the darkness is in fact at hand(predicate) than it may seem.