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Exploring characters’ emotions

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I can describe key events in Chapters 35, 36 and 37 and I can explain how the author’s descriptions and language choices help to show characters’ changing emotions.

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In this section of the book, Joseph learns from Mrs F that his father has died in the war. Joseph goes through a range of emotions, including denial, anger and guilt. The author uses descriptions of Joseph's actions, speech and thoughts to depict these emotions. The author also makes specific language choices to enhance certain emotions. We make inferences about emotions based on evidence within the text.

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