Jasper Jones Informative Speech

Good morning 2023 Metro Magazine Forum my name is Sienna and today I will be persuasively exploring the negative and positive aspects of the 1960s Australian social and cultural issues of being outcasted from a community in the film Jasper Jones.
Hook: (film clip)
Have you ever felt like you don’t belong and are an outcast in an over-stereotypical society? If so, you are not alone, according to evidnecebasedteaching.org.au, about 28% of all Australian school students feel like they don’t belong in their community. This is 1 in every 4 students, which is roughly 7 students in every class that are feeling that they are outcasted and discriminated against. As well as this 70% of the Australian population is likely to experience the unnecessary

The film presents the following characters as extreme outcasts, Jasper Jones, Jeffery Lu, and his family, and to some extent mad Jack Lionel. The film shows how racism and social exclusion affects different people of all religions, cultures, and especially race. In the clip shown previously where Jasper exclaims to Charlie that most of the characters in the story are fully aware that the society of the 1960s did not accept them for who they are due to the stereotypical expectations that a typical white Australian family follows.
The film ‘Jasper Jones’ represents the characters such as Jasper Jones, Jeffery Lu, and Mad Jack Lionel as outcasts who all conform to the dominant construct of Australia’s national identity in the rural communities of the 1960s. Silvey and Perkins do not include the expected values and beliefs of an all-white Australian masculine society.
After interpreting the film from a perspective of a female teenager in 2023 it is very obvious that the exclusion of certain groups of society that don’t match the expected values and beliefs of an all-white Australian masculine society would never happen today as it would be publicly

However, this is not viewed positively by his peers as Jasper is raised by his alcoholic abusive father, which often resorted Jasper to stealing for survival for example when he told Charlie that he went away to pick stone fruit. These traits paired with his mixed-race background, make him outcasted by the townspeople At the very first point where we see Jasper in the film it is at night with little to no lighting, this film technique gives the sense that the upcoming scene of Jasper is that he is dangerous and an outsider. Another reason why this is true is that all the typical white Australian characters are mostly always seen during daylight hours presenting these characters as “normal” and the favorited race. This point is important because, for the first part of the film, Jasper is the only character that is viewed in the dark. Which subsequently shows that an Indigenous person such as Jasper is mysterious and untrustworthy. Once the young boys discover Luara hanging from the tree Charlie wants to tell the Police, but Jasper must stop him as he well and truly knows that he will be accused of the murder because indigenous people at the time were never believed and were constantly mistreated. This can be shown when Sarge beats Jasper and kicks him in the ear. (CLIP FROM MOVIE) Which is how Jasper conforms to the