Jellicoe Road Analysis

The fictional town of Jellicoe is located in the bush land of Australia, relatively isolated from the rest of the world and a several hour drive from the civilization of Sydney. When you read the d...

We don't want to sound like know-it-alls or anything, but if Taylor weren't our narrator/point of view character, Jellicoe Road likely wouldn't work. The story's so enmeshed with Taylor's discovery...

"I don't know where I fit in" (2.4), Taylor tells us as she begins to explain the evidence that brought her to Jellicoe School. If that's not an indicator that we're reading a novel about a teenage...

There's a ton of longing for the past in this story, and it dips into just about every struggle the characters of Jellicoe Road have. Taylor may not have a lot of happy memories from her childhood,...

While there's no way to argue that Jellicoe Road isn't primarily Taylor's story, the excerpts from Hannah's manuscript that run parallel to Taylor's quest for identity transform the book's style in...

Whether we're talking about the original five of the 1980s or Taylor's bunch in 2006, the Jellicoe Road is the center of these characters' universe. Actually, if it weren't for the accident that to...

Jellicoe Road ends much the same way it begins, with a child saying goodbye to a parent. Just as Hannah watches her father die in the aftermath of the car crash, Taylor stays with her mother at the...

Jellicoe Road's a tough one, and not just because of its slightly intimidating size. On a first read, it can be difficult to see how all the pieces fit together—and even when you do, the answers...

Identity CrisisTaylor begins our story pulled in multiple very stressful directions. As leader of both the territory wars and one of Jellicoe School's Houses, people are looking to her for guidance...

Aside from being an award-winning novelist, Melina Marchetta is also a screenwriter. She wrote the screenplay for the film version of her novel Looking for Alibrandi, for which she won numerous awa...

There may be a couple pretty steamy sex scenes in Jellicoe Road, but if you're looking for 50 Shades of Grey, you're not going to find it here. If anything, sex in this book is the characters' way...

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1.14)William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (3.19-20)The Bible, Matthew 10:26 (5.9; 9.40, 9.85)Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (8.155-158; 12....