In 2008 Blackman was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her work. This award is given to an organization or a person who has contributed to children’s literature. The book inspired several sequels.īlackman was given the Eleanor Farjeon Award in 2005. The Noughts are the poor and formerly enslaved whites. The Crosses are the powerful and rich black. Noughts and Crosses (2001) is about a society that is the mirror image of modern English society. Jon for Short (2013) is a thriller about a boy who keeps having nightmares about missing body parts. It is the first of many of Blackman’s young adult novels that focus on young people using technology to help their parents.
Blackman felt that this was a problem, and she vowed to solve it as a writer.īlackman’s first novel, Hacker (1992), follows a teenage girl who uses computers to prove her father is innocent of a crime. This is because none of the characters in the stories she read as a child were black. The scene I wrote above expresses that.Ĭan a person be truly one hundred per cent evil? I believe Iago comes close.Blackman’s books always feature black characters. I don’t believe Iago is a man to feel remorse for what he has done or to explain himself.
Iago, though in pain, laughs in Cassio’s face. My scene above shows Cassio, who has taken over after Othello’s death, still trying to get Iago to at least apologise for what he did.
Iago is warned that ‘Torments will ope thy lips.’ He’s going to be tortured for what he’s done. What you know, you know.įrom this time forth I never will speak word.’ Once he realises how he’d been duped, Othello is desperate to know why Iago did it? Iago answers: My scene above takes place at the very end of the play, when Othello, Desdemona, Roderigo and Emilia are all dead – thanks to Iago. I had to study Othello as one of my A Level set texts many moons ago, and it has since become one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. My book Chasing the Stars was inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello, so I have chosen to add a scene to the end of that play. She uses science fiction to bring out the theme of ethnics and related social issues. She has prolifically produced children’s and young adult’s literature and television dramas. Lies within thine own grasp, if thou wouldst but admit Malorie Blackman is a renowned British children books writer and has been recently appointed the Children’s Laureate (2013-2015). The power to forestall such grim torments Knave, thou art to be pulled upon the rack Thy hands and thy feet, they shalt be shackled, Cassio: Th …more In my final scene, Cassio, who is now in charge, tries one last time to get Iago to say why he caused the deaths of so many innocent people. Malorie Blackman In my final scene, Cassio, who is now in charge, tries one last time to get Iago to say why he caused the deaths of so many innocent people.
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