Asturias Written by Brian Caswell

The novel, Asturias written by Brian Caswell holds its reputation with its relevance and effectiveness to the given audience. It captures the audienceЎ¦s attention with a modern story set in contemporary times. It addresses issues that concern todayЎ¦s youth with l„Zve, hate, friendship, abuse, gay rights and betrayal. With the parallel story involved with the civil war; it gives the audience an understanding of AustraliaЎ¦s history and how it changed and affected today.

Asturias concerns a group of adolescent youths, who are in search for fame and fortune. They create a band where the actions of friends and family affect the outcome of the band. Individual wants and needs, builds up tension, suspense, and dramatic moments to create a climax at the conclusion of the novel.

Asturias revolves around 8 central characters; Alex, Chrissie, Tash, Marco, Tim, Claire, Max and Symonds. Each character has different opinions and beliefs. They have all been brought up differently. Alex was brought up under strong male influence, where family bonds were strong. This is such a contrast to Marcos upbringing. Marco watched his fathersЎ¦ abusive actions and had a mother who never believed in him. Although each character is so diverse, they all held one common aspect; their l„Zve for music. This is what held the band so strongly together.

The structure of this novel has great effectiveness on how each character is perceived and how others perceive them. The uses of first person narrating gives us a subjective point of view, if it was narrated in third person you would get generalised opinions in objective manner. The book is set out