The way in which a character is shown as acting or reacting is one of the the chief ways in which authors establish personality. An author can make
everything a character is important. Even if the action is one that is normally thought of as slight, it can be made significant.
You must be prepared to find some characters action to be complex, because not every character reacts in same way everything they do and
balance one action against another. Although charaters in novel are not real people, they can be as puzzling. Therefore, you should be prepared to find
their action problematic
4.THE ANALYSIS OF “STAYING POWER” NOVEL
4.1 Kate Power
Staying Power novel tells about how Kate Power who has an out of body experience and catches between life and death has to choose between a happy past
and an unknowable future. The main character is Kate Power. DS Kate Power confronts sexism, racism,
spousal abuse, fraud, burglary, drug manufacture, and perhaps murder. She was only just sick leave,for Goodness’ sake.The holiday in
Florence had been to celebrate the return of her knee to normality.She’d injured it while she and her colleagues were raiding a house.It had also been something of
an order from her boss:
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Make sure you come back fit,’Detective Inspector Cope had said.’Don’t want any passengers in my squad.’His bos,Graham harvey,had said much
the same thing,though in kinder terms.’you’ve had a dreadful time this year,Kate.Go and get some sun and put some good food and goodwine
inside you.Make sure that cousin of yours looks after you.’ Judith Cutler, P 2
Kate was hovering on the threshold of her great aunt’s nursing home room.Kate had long suspected that the old lady actually lip-read most of what was
said.Persuading her to try a hearing-aid would be interesting ,to say the least.She had Cassie’s house as evidence,mcurse it as she might have done when it was at
its appalling worst.What she’d have liked to say was that she’d always loved Cassie,and coming to see her was an unbelievable adventure.
“Oh, don’t bother me with that.She can look after herself.Always could.Never came to see me.Not like you.Coming to see me on train all
by yourself,even when you were child.I appreciated that.I still do,’She added,gruffly, as if embarrassed by such an admission. Judith Cutler, P
18 Then, in the chapter four, it tells that the location where Alan Grafton
killed details that looked trivial but might not be; burn those into the brain so that even the foulest, most repulsive damage to a fellow human couldn’t eradicate
them There’d been nothing gentle about his death.He’d not broken his neck,but
strangled slowly,painfully. There were for some reason what looked like bloodstains on his sweter.She had to look more closely. Yes,there were
deep slashes across it. Something very sharp-a stanley knife? The arms too. At least,the left one. The right wasn’t so bad.
The last indignity : death had relaxed his sphincters, evidence of his final frailty for all to see. Judith Cutler, P 33-34
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Kate felt her anger rising when she should meeting with her Boss Graham Harvey bacause a fuck about the word on the street, He talk about Alan grafton a
good and decent man, and mud stick in this job it didn’t make her feel any better that she’d said exactly the same thing to him alrady. It seems to be stiking to me
already.’ She said, keeping her voice level with an effort.’Without reason.”
It can be seen quoted below: ‘Didn’t you hear what we said yesterday? He knows Sanderson – and
you people wanted to follow up Alan grafton’s bankruptcy. Full-stop.’ She let her voice rise to match Lizzie’s. Judith Cutler, P 157
4.2 Alan Grafton
