![]() The night of the town's New Year Fair, Charlie and Jasper decide it is time to act and confront Mad Jack. But their newfound cheer is stripped away when racist locals vandalise Jeffrey's family home. In town, things are beginning to look up after Jeffrey, previously bullied and excluded, helps the local junior cricket team win against their archrivals. Jasper is pleased, however, when Charlie offers him the interesting evidence he's found. ![]() Jasper, meanwhile, escapes the clutches of local police and returns to Charlie's house at night, badly beaten. He goes onto Mad Jack Lionel's property and looks for answers. When the town Sargent finds and interrogates Jasper, Charlie is determined to find the truth and save his new friend. But Jasper reappears at his window one night, they stake out Mad Jack's house together, and Jasper urges Charlie to break in and find the evidence they need. Charlie feels alone with his secret and his task of helping find evidence to catch the killer. Meanwhile, at home, Charlie's tempestuous mother Ruth dishes out harsh discipline, to which his browbeaten father Wes appears resigned. As the townspeople of Corrigan, led by the Sergeant, search for Laura, they get closer to the glade every day.Ĭharlie struggles to contain what he knows and battles to keep a lid on his over-enthusiastic best friend, the Vietnamese and cricket-loving Jeffrey. Jasper disappears for days and Charlie carries the secret heavily, especially when in the company of Eliza Wishart, his unrequited love and the younger sister of the missing girl. Besides, Jasper tells Charlie, he already knows the murderer's identity: Mad Jack Lionel, the town recluse, a man who it is rumoured killed a woman several years previously and hung her in the local abattoir.Ĭharlie gives in to Jasper's wishes and together they hide Laura's body, agreeing to keep it a secret and catch the real killer themselves. Because of his Aboriginality he is blamed for everything bad that happens in Corrigan and he believes he will surely be blamed for Laura's death. Jasper takes him to a secret glade where Charlie witnesses something terrible: a 16-year-old girl, Laura Wishart, Jasper's girlfriend and the only person he could trust, is hanging dead from a eucalypt tree.Ĭharlie immediately wants to contact the police. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie takes off into the night with him, terrified but desperate to impress. Rebellious, mixed-race, and solitary, Jasper is for Charlie a distant figure of danger and intrigue. It's Jasper Jones, an outcast in the small Western Australian mining town of Corrigan. Late on a hot summer night in 1969, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish 14-year-old boy, is startled by an urgent knock on his bedroom window.
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