A Little Place Off the Edgeware Road

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A Little Place Of the EdgwareRoadby : Graham Greene

Group members :

Siti Fatihah

Nur Adiba

Nur Syamimie Hazwani Jesssica

Hanisah

Khadijah


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Plot o the story

• A man named Craven

• He always has a recrrent nightmare :dead !eo!le wal"ed in and ot o each

other#s grave• He goes to the cinema where a man sits

ne$t to him and he starts tal"ing to him%

• He thin"s that the man is boasting that he

is the mrderer who was recently in thenews

• &he stranger#s hands are 'dam! andstic"y' and leave a smear o blood


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• &hen he inorms the !olice%

• However) they tell him that themrderer has already beena!!rehended% *t is the body o

the victim that has not yet beenond%

• &o his horror he realised that the

stranger is not the mrderer btthe victim% At this !oint Cravengoes berser") screaming the he

won#t go mad% +t we "now that


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Characterization of theprotaonist

,ain character : Craven

• *n the -rst !aragra!h we are given theim!ression that he is a solitary) lonely

character%• He can.t sim!ly l-ll his desire to love

and be loved becase he is not a richman%

• Craven is also losing his aith in God% Heas"s himsel) '/hy shold he be as"edto believe in the resrrection o this


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• Craven) is obsessed abot the hman body#sim!rity) ending ! insanity%

• His se!arateness rom the rest o society isstrongly em!hasi0ed) Greene also showsCraven as being an envios character%

Evidence rom te$t :1 He hated them) and hated his hatred

becase he "new what it was) envy% He wasaware that everyone o them had a better bodythan himsel: indigestion creased his stomach:

he elt sre that his breath was ol bt whocold he as"2 3ometimes he secretly tochedhimsel here and there with scent: it was one ohis gliest secrets%4 Page 567


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!he sini"cant of the protaonist

• *n #A little !lace of the Edgware

Road# there are two ocalcharacters%

• One o these characters and the

other remains nnamedthroghot the story%

• +y not naming one o thecharacters we see him as morem sterios and it hel s s to


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• Greene writes in the third !erson rather

than giving s the ltimate insight intoCraven#s head by writing in the-rst !erson%

• He also gives s a certain distance rom

Craven and this is mch li"e real lie as wealways eel a certain distance rom mad!eo!le mostly becase we are not madorselves%


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