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Character Sketch – Julie
The Cement Garden by Ian McEvan
Julie is the eldest child in her family. She also has a younger sister Sue and two younger brothers- little Tom and the narrator , Jack. Readers get to know Julie’s world through Jack’s eyes only. We get to know Jack’s thoughts of Julie. Jack can be described as an emotionally closed or distant person .
As their parents passed away , Julie became the head of the family, which means that she had to take care of her younger siblings to keep the family together. They live in isolation and only have each other . The children were discouraged to bring over friends .
The emotional connection between the children becomes stronger as they share a secret about their mother ’s death . They put her body into a trunk in the basement, which they fill up with cement. After her father ’s death and mother’s illness, Julie becomes remote from her siblings, quiet and certain of her authority . Jack shared her thoughts about her as he described her as serious and efficient, and later he says that he suspected she was exploiting the position , that she enjoyed ordering me (Jack) about. To me, Julie seems immature and too young for all the responsibility she has to carry , she was unsure about her actions and she wasn’t ready for her role as the mother. She was constantly tired of little Tom wanting her attention . She may be more responsible than her brother Jack, on the other hand she is less analytical. Julie is often unable to see the consequences of her decisions and actions. For example, actions involving Derek into their lives , which also led to the exposure of their secret.
Losing parents definitely had a large role in forming Julies character. As if losing both -father and later mother wasn’t hard enough, they couldn’t tell anyone and she had to take all the responsibility so they could avoid ending up in foster care. I can only imagine how hard it must’ve been for a teenage girl, to start acting like an adult to due such circumstances.
Julie’s father used to make fun of her ambitions of becoming a famous athlete, however she was actually pretty talented . She held a local record for sprint and often trained in school for the athletics team. Jack described Julie having a high ridge of cheekbone beneath her eyes, which gave her the deep look of some rare wild animal. In electric light her eyes were black and big. The soft line of her mouth was just broken by two front teeth and she had to pout a little to conceal her smile . Jack obviously longed to examine his older sister. Unlike Jack, Julie takes great care of her appearance, which takes considerable preparation each evening .
I think Jack was unhappy because Julie never spoke to him or acknowledged his presence at school. She even refused to walk to school together because she didn’t want to be seen with him. Her closest friends had a reputation at school and she thought that it wouldn’t be good for her reputation. In spite of all this, Jack couldn’t get enough of observing her.
But Julie herself gave little away, she dominated her group and heightened her reputation with a disruptive, intimidating quietness.
Julie could run like the wind, but she walked as though asleep, dead slow , straight-backed, and in a very straight line. She often appeared deep in thought, but when we asked her she always protested that her mind was empty.
Her silence made us all a little afraid of her, but again she would protest her voice musical with bemusement, that she was the only one who was afraid. It was true, she was shy - there was a rumor she never spoke in class without blushing - but she had the quiet strength and detachment, and lived in the separate world of those who are, and secretly know they are, exceptionally beautiful.
Jack is envious of Julie due to her close relationship with their mother and Sue. Mother used to trust Julie more and also told her more about her state of health because she was the eldest. Jack is also jealous of Julies relationship with her boyfriend Derek. He wanted to be in Derek’s place instead of him.
Jack and Julie once used to play a game where they inspected Sue’s naked body as if they were scientists observing a new sample. Ever since that, Jack has had a longing wish to do the same with his older sister. Jack was weirdly attracted to her. As if this wasn’t inappropriate enough, Jack and Julie had sex in the end of the book.
I think in the book Julie was mentally exhausted and overwhelmed . Even though she was the eldest, she wasn’t ready to take care of everything and take her mother’s place. Perhaps it was the grief that made her act and thinks the way she did. In my opinion it was all very odd but I guess everyone has a different way of dealing with grief.
Liisa -Maria Pihlak , 12B
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