FACELESS: CHARACTERISATION; LITERACY DEVICES; LANGUAGE AND STYLE

CONTENT

1. Characterisation
2. Language and Style

Characterisation

There are many characters in this novel. None of them is developed enough into round characters. They are all flat characters painted with a straightjacket paint brush. It is either they are completely bad or perfectly good. Some of the characters are outlined below.

Fofo

She is the lead character. The story centres on her life in the street. She moved into the street to beg because her family could not afford to care for her siblings. She finally abandoned her home to live permanently on the street with a gang stealing, begging and prostituting. Even up to the point she was being rehabilitated to MUTE, Fofo had no other traits to parade outside the stereotyped street girl vices she had grown up with. Her new resolution to quit gang life and drinking to start scrubbing carrots in the market did little to redeem her image.

Odarley

She is a friend of Fofo. They lived on the street together. Her mother sent her out of the house because she is troublesome.