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What Are The Four Messages Revealed By An Author?

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Every text an individual reads contains messages. There is a small line between reading messages directly or indirectly from the text. Many texts throughout history can be found to have numerous messages both unintentially and intentionally placed in them by their author/s. A common feature of texts is that the author deliberately inserts mesages, however the reader regularly notices only the messages which are obvious and not the ones that are indirectly hidden. Pope (2015) states that these messages are placed with the author's intention of providing a lesson for the reader to learn. These lessons are often ones which the author themselves have experienced and attempt to share the experience with the reader. The texts 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Guernica' have many messages which will be explored. The childrens novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" written by Roald Dahl in 1964 is a well-known example of a meaningful text. Curtis (2014) states that most of Dahl's novels have many intended messages, but the majority of them are hidden beneath 'the surface' : They are ones which must be searched for. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there are direct and indirect messages which are usually displayed by using the characters, their history and actions to further the story forward. Richter (2015) compares the characters of Charlie Bucket and Veruca Salt, believing they are the prime examples of meaning in the …show more content…

Mehmi (2014) states that children commonly display greed. And the two messages are important because as children as the main audience of this novel, they read the story and Dahl wants them to learn these messages when they are children so any greed they have will go away before they become adults. This makes it very important and effective by communicating this message to people who have this trait and need to learn to lose or control

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