| Titre : | Knife Edge | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Malorie Blackman, Auteur | | Editeur : | Londres,Paris,New York [Royaume-Uni,France,USA] : Pearson Education | | Année de publication : | 2013 | | Collection : | Penguin Readers | | Importance : | 88 p. | | Format : | 19.6 x 13.2 x 0.5 centimetres (0.09 kg) | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-4082-9138-2 | | Langues : | Anglais | | Résumé : | Sephy is a Cross, the privileged group in a society where Crosses treat noughts as inferiors, but her daughter Callie Rose's father Callum is a nought. Callum's brother Jude blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered and is determined to destroy Sephy's life by any means necessary. He meets Cara, a Cross, and befriends her to access her money.
Sephy, living with Callum's mother Meggie, becomes increasingly fond of her daughter, Callie Rose. Sephy receives a letter, supposedly written by Callum before he died, saying he never loved her and he cannot believe she was stupid enough to fall for him. Meggie refuses to believe the letter but Sephy becomes extremely depressed. She meets Jaxon, a hot-tempered man with a band, the Midges. He offers Sephy a singing part but the noughts are prejudiced against her because she is a Cross. She begins to neglect Callie Rose.
Cara spends a lot of time with Jude. Although he loathes Crosses he begins to fall in love with her. Frustrated and confused with the feelings he has for a Cross, Jude beats her severely, and she later dies as a result. Jude is charged with Cara's murder and faces a virtually certain death sentence.
Sephy struggles with seeing Meggie losing the last remaining member of her family. Sephy decides, for Meggie's sake, to pretend to be Jude's alibi for Cara's death. This works, and after serving a few months in prison for Liberation Militia (LM) membership, Jude is freed—he even manages to accuse senior LM leader Andrew Dorn of Cara's murder, and out him as a government informer, resulting in Dorn's swift "execution". Jude, despite Sephy saving his miserable life, still holds his grudge against her and is still plotting terrible revenge.
Sephy's life begins to fall apart. The Crosses hate her because she helped Jude escape the noose and the noughts because she did not come to his aid sooner. She suffers from post-natal depression, which results in her hugging her daughter too tightly while singing the famous song "Rainbow Child". Callie Rose stops breathing and the chapter ends with Meggie screaming, "What have you done?" at Sephy. After a few more chapters, the book concludes with a lot of suspense.
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Knife Edge [texte imprimé] / Malorie Blackman, Auteur . - Londres,Paris,New York (Royaume-Uni,France,USA) : Pearson Education, 2013 . - 88 p. ; 19.6 x 13.2 x 0.5 centimetres (0.09 kg). - ( Penguin Readers) . ISBN : 978-1-4082-9138-2 Langues : Anglais | Résumé : | Sephy is a Cross, the privileged group in a society where Crosses treat noughts as inferiors, but her daughter Callie Rose's father Callum is a nought. Callum's brother Jude blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered and is determined to destroy Sephy's life by any means necessary. He meets Cara, a Cross, and befriends her to access her money.
Sephy, living with Callum's mother Meggie, becomes increasingly fond of her daughter, Callie Rose. Sephy receives a letter, supposedly written by Callum before he died, saying he never loved her and he cannot believe she was stupid enough to fall for him. Meggie refuses to believe the letter but Sephy becomes extremely depressed. She meets Jaxon, a hot-tempered man with a band, the Midges. He offers Sephy a singing part but the noughts are prejudiced against her because she is a Cross. She begins to neglect Callie Rose.
Cara spends a lot of time with Jude. Although he loathes Crosses he begins to fall in love with her. Frustrated and confused with the feelings he has for a Cross, Jude beats her severely, and she later dies as a result. Jude is charged with Cara's murder and faces a virtually certain death sentence.
Sephy struggles with seeing Meggie losing the last remaining member of her family. Sephy decides, for Meggie's sake, to pretend to be Jude's alibi for Cara's death. This works, and after serving a few months in prison for Liberation Militia (LM) membership, Jude is freed—he even manages to accuse senior LM leader Andrew Dorn of Cara's murder, and out him as a government informer, resulting in Dorn's swift "execution". Jude, despite Sephy saving his miserable life, still holds his grudge against her and is still plotting terrible revenge.
Sephy's life begins to fall apart. The Crosses hate her because she helped Jude escape the noose and the noughts because she did not come to his aid sooner. She suffers from post-natal depression, which results in her hugging her daughter too tightly while singing the famous song "Rainbow Child". Callie Rose stops breathing and the chapter ends with Meggie screaming, "What have you done?" at Sephy. After a few more chapters, the book concludes with a lot of suspense.
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