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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning in that it gives an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of the genre. There are some brief comments on how some elements of the genre can be linked to the text, although teachers and students may well think of other relevant ideas. We haven’t covered every element of this genre. Instead we hope this guide will provide a springboard to help you plan, and to get you and your students thinking about the text in more detail.  \nOverview  \nBrighton Rock is a 1930s period novel that foregrounds crime and criminality in its first sentence. The sentence (and the word “murder” in particular) is stark and unnerving and suggests something of the kind of crime writing text this is. Brighton Rock is not a murder mystery, a whodunit, like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd where a civilised, rural and largely middle class community is shocked by a killing. In Greene’s novel, murder or acts of violence are an everyday part of the dark underworld, one which is seething with bitterness and terror. Gangs are in open conflict about who will take the lion’s share of the protection racket business and violence. Intimidation and murder are common. The language that is used is raw and Greene incorporates the slang of the underworld (polony, buer, nicker, bogies) to give a sense of realism.  \nIn the novel there are two murders in the narrative present, another murder in the past, that of Kite, which has triggered the current hostilities, razor slashings, a bending of the law to obtain a marriage between an underage girl and an underage boy, an attempt to procure the girl’s death through cruel deception and a desperate suicide of the main villain. But this text is not simply a crime thriller either. Greene set out to write a crime or detective novel (the subtitle for the novel was originally ‘An Entertainment’which is what crime writing is typically thought to be), but in creating a vicious protagonist, whose Catholic teachings lead to his being tormented by notions of mortal sin and visions of hell, and an adversary who is pragmatic and believes only in ensuring right triumphs over wrong, the novel has much in common with the morality plays of the medieval period and the two genres are interestingly interwoven.  \nSetting  \nThe setting of the novel in 1930s Brighton at Whitsuntide is crucial to the narrative. The Brighton Greene represents is a town of two faces. The novel opens with a focus on the tourist’s vision of Brighton. This Brighton is cheerful, a holiday makers’ heaven (though the reader already knows that it is here that Hale suspects he will be murdered) . As the novel progresses, a different face emerges, one that is far away from the tourist friendly Brighton seafront. At the races, or in the backstreets where Billy’s house can be found, there is corruption and criminality, a sleazy underworld of gangs and protection rackets, of which those who holiday in Brighton are largely unaware; it is a world of fallen souls. Interestingly, though, the criminal world also lurks in both the prestigious Cosmopolitan Hotel where Colleoni sets up his power base and on the piers where ordinary people are having fun. The scream of seagulls and the crash of the sea’s waves and the songs of the drunken holiday makers act as choric sounds to the grim story that unfolds on the Brighton setting.  \nPalace Pier is itself a key location. It is the place Rose takes Pinkie on their wedding day and in doing so she takes him inadvertently to the place of Hale’s death. Hale is killed at a confectionary stall on the pier in the middle of the day, details of the death and location are not given in Part 1 and only emerge later.  \nPinkie is himself a product of a Brighton slum a","cbCaimzK1EybKrjc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimzK1EybKrjc","pdf",164352,"English","# Overview\n## Setting\n## Crimes: murder and violence","[{\"question\":\"How does Brighton Rock establish its crime-writing tone from the opening?\",\"answer\":\"It foregrounds crime and criminality immediately, with the first sentence and the word “murder” setting a stark, unsettling mood that signals a distinct kind of crime writing rather than a traditional mystery plot.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the 1930s Brighton setting play in the narrative?\",\"answer\":\"The novel presents Brighton as having “two faces”: a tourist-friendly cheerful image and, beneath it, corruption, gangs, and protection rackets. 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