Texts are never neutral in the issues they raise: they always attempt to influence their readers’ values and attitudes. Explain how the themes and issues raised by a novel you have studied attempt to influence the values and attitudes of its readers. Nick Earl’s novel 48 Shades Of Brown raises a variety of themes and issues and as the novel progresses begins to force its own values and attitudes onto its readers. The text discusses …showed first 75 words of 1270 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1270 total…t. Throughout the text many values and attitudes were encourages among readers. While all attitudes are fine, they are also very predictable. For example it is unlikely that a text will encourage the view that school is bad, or that homosexuals are not normal people. The book however does encourage good values amongst readers and all of this is achieved through using such techniques as characterization, point of view, language, tone, symbolism, dialogue and setting.