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A Little Place Of the EdgwareRoadby : Graham Greene
Group members :
Siti Fatihah
Nur Adiba
Nur Syamimie Hazwani Jesssica
Hanisah
Khadijah
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Plot o the story
• A man named Craven
• He always has a recrrent nightmare :dead !eo!le wal"ed in and ot o each
other#s grave• He goes to the cinema where a man sits
ne$t to him and he starts tal"ing to him%
• He thin"s that the man is boasting that he
is the mrderer who was recently in thenews
• &he stranger#s hands are 'dam! andstic"y' and leave a smear o blood
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• &hen he inorms the !olice%
• However) they tell him that themrderer has already beena!!rehended% *t is the body o
the victim that has not yet beenond%
• &o his horror he realised that the
stranger is not the mrderer btthe victim% At this !oint Cravengoes berser") screaming the he
won#t go mad% +t we "now that
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Characterization of theprotaonist
,ain character : Craven
• *n the -rst !aragra!h we are given theim!ression that he is a solitary) lonely
character%• He can.t sim!ly l-ll his desire to love
and be loved becase he is not a richman%
• Craven is also losing his aith in God% Heas"s himsel) '/hy shold he be as"edto believe in the resrrection o this
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• Craven) is obsessed abot the hman body#sim!rity) ending ! insanity%
• His se!arateness rom the rest o society isstrongly em!hasi0ed) Greene also showsCraven as being an envios character%
Evidence rom te$t :1 He hated them) and hated his hatred
becase he "new what it was) envy% He wasaware that everyone o them had a better bodythan himsel: indigestion creased his stomach:
he elt sre that his breath was ol bt whocold he as"2 3ometimes he secretly tochedhimsel here and there with scent: it was one ohis gliest secrets%4 Page 567
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!he sini"cant of the protaonist
• *n #A little !lace of the Edgware
Road# there are two ocalcharacters%
• One o these characters and the
other remains nnamedthroghot the story%
• +y not naming one o thecharacters we see him as morem sterios and it hel s s to
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• Greene writes in the third !erson rather
than giving s the ltimate insight intoCraven#s head by writing in the-rst !erson%
• He also gives s a certain distance rom
Craven and this is mch li"e real lie as wealways eel a certain distance rom mad!eo!le mostly becase we are not madorselves%
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