- Paperback
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- Martyn Pig
- Kevin Brooks
- English
- 11 January 2019
- 9780439507523
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Martyn Pig Free download ✓ 100 Miserable and it always has been His mother is gone His father hates him But at least things can't get any worse Or so he thoughtWhen his father dies in a sudden accident Martyn realizes that for the first time in his life he has a c. There s a new GCSE specification in English next year and this is one of the possible texts to study I wouldn t usually read this kid of novel for pleasure because it s aimed at teenagers Regardless I ll judge it on its own meritsBasically the characters seem to me to be a collection of cliches in modern teen fiction alcoholic father female friend who doesn t see the protagonist in that way older boyfriend of female character with no redeemable features single mother strict aunt Until later in the novel the writer also makes these characters very two dimensional the father is just a bad man He s in no way a victim of alcoholism or even a human being there is no subtlety in the characterisation at allThe plot itself is interesting enough although the amount of money involved makes the whole thing a little ridiculous as it s just not enough to be a life changing amount Also Brooks is a competent writer and there s a couple fo set pieces where his style is imaginative and he does attempt something different which is to his creditAs a text to teach I think that teenagers would enjoy it and find it easy to access I also think that there are a lot of teaching activities that could be fun linked with the text As a result I will probably teach it however I do have some regret that GCSE can now be based on such a text and not the classic literature that has been studied for years Does this compare with Orwell Steinbeck Harper Lee Golding Salinger No chance
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Martyn Pig Free download ✓ 100 Hoice Sure he could report what happened and move in with his horrible Aunty Jean Or he could get rid of the body and move on with the rest of his life So Martyn comes up with a foolproof plan to hide the body Hey what could go wrong. plot Martyn Pig is a book about lying stealing and killing The book is named after its main character Martyn He is a socially awkward teen with a drunken father Near Christmas Martyn and his father get into an argument and his dad attacks him Martyn ducks sending his father into a wall by accident The impact kills his father and Martyn does not know what to do He heads up to his dad s room and discovers checks for 30000 pounds When he sees his ultimate plan Martyn goes to see his friend Alex She is a few years older and they don t really talk but Martyn does not know where else to go With her help Martyn disposes of his father The only problem now is Dean Alex s boyfriend As it turns out Dean overheard the whole plan to cover Martyn s fathers death With all these problems Martyn will need a miracle to get away with his deceased father s moneyCharacterization Martyn s only friend in the book is Alex Alex helps Martyn with hiding his dad s corpse During the early chapters Alex is just a person that Martyn used to know Her character changes when her boyfriend Dean places a tape recorder in her bag Dean hears all about Martyn and Alex s plan and threatens to frame them if he does not get the money Alex turns from a relatively uite girl to a calculating and tactical thinker She is always one step ahead of everyone even Martyn By the end of the book Alex manages to kill Dean protect Martyn while he is in custody and take the 30000 pounds and head to America Her character is very interesting and smart throughout the booksetting The book is set in the United Kingdom during Christmas week The visual setting is mostly dreary and dark Sometimes it snows but most of the time it is raining Martyn says he does not like the hustle of Christmas shopping The main impact that the timing has on Martyn is his two day window to hide his father s body before his Aunty Jean arrives Martyn s plan to get away with the perfect murder means that he has to make it so his dad appears to be sleeping in his bedroom when his Aunt shows up When she finally comes to Martyn s house she does not see anything unusual thus giving Martyn an alibi with his Aunt s depiction of his fatherRecommendation I did not enjoy reading this book at first I thought there would be a pigman but I soon appreciated its rising action and overall plot I recommend it to younger teens that enjoy crime mysteries and small bits of drama I give Martyn Pig a 4 out of 5 stars
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Martyn Pig Free download ✓ 100 A stunning debut by first time novelist Kevin Brooks this riveting black comedy wowed readers and reviewers alike Now in a dynamic new Kevin Brooks repackagingMeet Martyn Pig His name may be bad but his life is worseMartyn's life is. WHAT THE HELL I had to read this book for school FOR SCHOOLSchool school is an institution designed for the teaching of students or pupils under the direction of teachersSo why the hell are they teaching me that MURDER is NOT something BAD if you don t get caught WHAT THE HELL SERIOUSLYI mean many books are not the best influence but for someone to write a book for TEENS and show them how other TEENS of their same age murder other people in cold blood and have no regrets at all because OF MONEY is a little disturbing They shouldn t have published this book AT ALL They should have thrown the author in a madhouse What kind of lesson are you giving the youth SERIOUSLY KEVIN BROOKS WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING It s all bad enough with the drinking drugs etc Now you teach them to become a MURDER What the hell I just can t get over this I mean obviously what happened to Martyn s dad was an accident and he was afraid they d blame him I would have called the police anyway but I understand so he got rid of the body THAT was already wrong though But Martyn was the most disturbed weird depressive and heartless kid I ve ever read about I mean he lied ALL the goddamned time He came up with plans that only a serial killer could think off But that wasn t what had blown me away Not at all It was what Alex did and with the help of her MOTHER WTF Killing someone and than tell in her stupid filthy letter that it wasn t bad if she didn t get caught SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FCK I had to blink a few times when I read the last page Normally it takes me about 3 days to finish a book of 600 pages but THIS book was so depressive that it took me than 4 days to read it and it only has 177 pages It was that depressive I would have put it aside and stopped reading it if it wasn t for the fact that I have to make a test about it I wonder how they can complain that this generation becomes worse with the time when they allow these kinds of books to saunter around for childrenteens to read