In the novel Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey, the society in which Laura lives in is an underpinning cause of her death, since the people she feels closest to are majorly to blame. Laura hopes for support from many individuals that she trusts since she feels connected and close to them, but they break her hope by hurting her emotionally or physically. Her father, Pete Wishart consistently abuses and tortures Laura, making her want the escape the torture and suffocation at her own home through death. Laura hoped to gain support through her suffering from her mother, but she also completely ignores her own daughter’s pain leaving Laura with absolutely no hope, forcing her to end her life. Laura’s younger sister, Eliza saw Laura’s death …show more content…
Laura’s agonising misery was completely invisible to her mother since she always seems ‘the same as ever, serenely unaware’ of the constant torture her daughter has to endure. Her mother is fully unaffected by the suffocation Laura has to live in, as she calmly lives her life acting as if everything is perfect in her family simply ignoring her own daughter’s distress. Laura’s mother is entirely fixated on performing well in front of the society and never losing her social status, thus ignoring the justice and support Laura deserves in her torture. Laura hoped to gain some support from her mother in her suffering, but instead her mother did not even ‘believe her... and called Laura a liar.’ Hence completely breaking her daughter’s last strands of hope, she left Laura with no choice but to commit suicide in the hope to end the pain herself. The lack of support Laura’s mother gives her is influenced by the society that they live in, since her mother does not want to damage her and her family’s reputation by disclosing the horrid things happening in her home to the world. The death of Laura Wishart is majorly caused by the people in her life like her mother who she felt close to, but the society also had a supporting role in her death as well as her younger sister Eliza who also shares the