In the extract the Last Night the writer Sebastian Faulks makes the reader feel sympathy for the victims in the story because of his descriptions of the brutality of the victim’s situation, through the constant reiteration of ideas that foreshadow death throughout the extract, the way the children are characterized to be too naïve to be in such a terrible situation, and through Faulks’s inclusions of mundane details which are contrasting to the potentially dramatic context of the text. These aspects of Faulks’s writing evoke sympathy from the reader.
Faulks’s inclusions of mundane descriptions evoke sympathy from the reader, as these details are juxtaposed against the potentially dramatic context of the writing. Faulks’s uses very routine activities such as “each child was given a sandwich.” The mundane description of the action masks the horrible reality of the children’s future; thus, this contrast evokes a sense of poignancy and so draws out sympathy from the reader, as we know that an imminent death awaiting them.
Sympathy is also evoked through the way in which the victims are portrayed while writing their letter. As the deportees write with “punctilious care”, Faulks depicts the nature of the deportees’ writing as very cautious. He describes that “the way in which they were remembered, depended upon their choice of word.” Writing a postcard should be very liberating for someone, and one shouldn’t have to worry about their punctuation and instead just be able to put their thoughts on paper. As these ideas are moving because they are so emotional in their final message, contained in a tiny postcard is juxtaposed against the content of the post card which is their entire life and therefore it is moving.
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Faulks portrays the children to be in a very dire situation, this idea is evident through the entire the extract but this idea is most prominent in his descriptions when Andre and Jacob are sleeping in the dung. Andre lays his cheek “uncaring in the dung” Faulks’s description reiterates how dire their situation is to the extent that even manure provides them comfort. This image evokes shock and sympathy in the reader especially through evidence that they are only children yet they are put through such a tormenting situation.
The children in Faulks’s writing are depicted to only have temporal happiness. This idea is brought out when they are given food, “A pail of water, round which they clustered, holding out sardine cans they passed from one to another. One of the older boys embraced her in his gratitude, but the bucket was soon empty.” The description of the children’s reaction to the food reiterates the desperation of their situation, despite such small quantities of food and water, they were happy but their joy is only temporal. Sympathy is evoked through Faulk’s description of temporal happiness, because they can only be satisfied momentarily but then they are being transported to their imminent death.
The idea of temporal happiness is also reiterated through the descriptions of the children sleeping, “their ability to fall asleep where they lay, to dream of other places.” The sympathy is conveyed through the fact they can only dream of other places, but their happiness is destructed by the harsh reality of the situation. The descriptions of the temporal happiness in their dreams also show how their dreams are a much more preferable life, than their current situation this again emphasizes the brutality of their situation.
The relationship between the two brothers Andre and Jacob also evokes sympathy from the reader as “Jacob’s limbs were intertwined with his [Andre’s] for warmth.” The action of the intertwined limbs shows the proximity of the two brothers this description also evokes sympathy because the brothers have to intertwine their limbs for warmth, this describes the setting and how it is a cold atmosphere, but the figurative meaning that evokes more sympathy though Faulks’s descriptions, which is that the cold environment is set predominantly because of the dictatorship of the Nazi. Their regime makes everything seem cold and brutal. Sympathy from the reader is evoked because Andre and Jacob are only children, yet they have to be tormented through the brutality of the Nazi regime.
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The age of the children in Faulks’s writing, plays a predominant part in evoking sympathy from the reader. The children are forced to wake up from their sleep, but they “dug their heels and screamed.” The reluctant mannerisms of the children’s, shows their naivety, as they don’t want to wake up from their dreams this reiterates the innocence of the children and their age. The reader feels sympathy for the children because they are tormented through such a brutal situation, and how they ‘screamed’ this action is very prominent the reader is also provided with a n image of children being tormented and they are ‘screaming and digging their heels’ in order to save themselves.
The age of the children is shown as they can’t climb on the steps to get on the buses, again this shows how some of the children were “too small to manage the step up” also how young they are to be in such a terrible situation. There is also a terrible irony the way in which the children are helped up to get on the bus, an action like this could usually be associated when parents are sending their children off to school, but here the children are being helped to be sent off to their death, this evokes sympathy from the reader, as police who is a well looked upon figure who is meant to help the society is helping to send children off to their death.
The finality of the situation that the victims have been put through is emphasized when the “bus roared”, this roaring marks the finality of their situation, as this roaring is a symbol to the beginning of the victim’s ending, Faulks ends his writing using the juxtaposition of the setting. The juxtaposition of something normal like a café against the potentially dramatic context of the text. The headlights only light up the café again reiterating their ultimate doom, also the inclusions of the mundane everyday ideas. The sympathy is again evoked through Faulk’s inclusions of mundane details.
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In conclusion Faulks’s makes the reader feel sympathy by portraying the brutality that the victims have been put through, and the constant reiteration of the idea of death, doom and destruction.
