Chapter 5 Summary: The Split

Within this chapter, she learns things about her fathers past, she finds out that her father before her and Minerva were born that her dad had another son, Sephy was shocked by the news and ran to tell her sister Minerva but she had already knew about this situation, she was so upset by this news and how no one had told her. Also within an argument her parents are having she over heard that they were fighting and were going to get a divorce, now she is more curious then ever and wants to find her brother, she wonders if she has meet him before and wants to know everything but she can’t ask her parents or Minerva because she didn’t want to know anything cause it would change everything, she was mad at her parents, the world and herself.

A few days had gone past and Minerva had went up stairs to one of the rooms to find her mother passed out on the floor, she had tried to overdose by taking some pills and alcohol. She straight out called Sephy to call an ambulance, lucky their mother was okay but had been watched over for a few weeks by the hospital and when she was allowed back home she was different. Mrs Hadley had started to act different, she became more affectionate towards Sephy and Minerva, they were confused at the time but they came to accept it because they knew their mother felt lonely with no friends and their father no coming to visit once. Also Callum’s sister Lynette has been in an “accident” but later on in the book Callum finds out through a letter she wrote to him that it wasn’t an accident, that she committed suicide by jumping in front of a bus, the whole family and all the noughts are heartbroken by this.

Chapter 4 Summary: The Breakdown

This Chapter focuses more on Lynette (Callum’s sister) rather than Callum and Sephy’s relationship, we learn about Lynettes past due to a fight she had with her brother Jude over the crosses. She believed she was a cross because her pervious boyfriend Jed was a cross and it was easier to live her life as a cross not a nought, and Jude kept telling the reality or how she wasn’t a cross and from this all her memories came back of her boyfriend and an encounter with some crosses a few years back, she said it as if it was yesterday. Lynettte liked thinking she was a cross but it helped her deal with society and life but no that had been changed she started remembering what had happened and she couldn’t handle it.

Also within this Chapter Sephy’s birthday is coming up and she wanted a party and she knew her mother didn’t want any noughts to come which included Callum and in spite of what her mother said she invited Callum to her party. Callum knew her mother didn’t approve of him coming so he asked her and she admitted how she only wanted him there to get back at her mother and prove a point, in this Chapter it focuses on the different types of conflict and shows it in many scenes.

Chapter 3 Summary: The Picnic

In Chapter 3 Callum and Sephy went to Celebration Park where they wanted go for a picnic together, even though their parents disagreed with them seeing each other because Callum was a nought and Sephy was a cross, but they continued to see each other anyways. There was a situation while they were on a train to the Picnic with Callum and a police officer. The cross police officer was checking for everyones tickets and because Callum nought they started to ask him irrelevant questions and wanted to kick him off the train but before they did Sephy stepped in and stood up for Callum. She told the officer of who her father was and threaten them to stop and they did. Callum didn’t enjoy their day out because of this situation, due to him being a nought it has many negative impacts on his life.

Just because society treats noughts differently doesn’t mean you have to, Sephy believed it was wrong what the police officer did and she was right because he had no right to treat Callum like that so she had stood up for him when no one else would.

Chapter 2 Summary: The Turning

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Within this Chapter many scenes of conflict and violence are being seen, now it has become more difficult for Callum and Sephy and their relationship has been put on hold. Callum has arrived at school to Shania telling him the news about Sephy, she has been beaten up by other crosses because she was hanging out with the noughts at lunch. Callum felt so gulity by the news and races to Sephys house to see if she was okay where he is confronted by Mrs hadley (Sephys mother) and she refused to let him see sephy. Sephy was unaware of Callum coming to visit her each day and she thought he didn’t care like all the other noughts.

Sephy wanted revenge on those girls who she thought were her friends, beat her up for sitting with the noughts, she spoke to her sister about the situation and they both wanted revenge but she realised it would make everything worse and she would be doing that they did to her which wasn’t right even though they were in the wrong, sephy believe that noughts and crosses should be seen as equals and tried to make a chance.

Chapter 1 Summary: Callum and Seph

In chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses we are introduced to the main characters, Callum and Sephy who are from two different worlds, Callum is a nought (from the white community) and Sephy is a cross (from the black community) and in their world, they don’t mix. This chapter explores the theme of racism and conflict, Sephy and Callum who were best friends start to grow feelings for each other but their parents and society don’t agree. They will try anything to help each other and be together but they come across many challenges along the way which prevents them from being together and hanging out.

Within this chapter there is conflicts between both communities and in one scene a riot breaks out in Heathcroft high with is the school where Callum and Sephy go and all the crosses have a protest against the noughts and repeating the saying “no blankers in our school, no blankers in our school” during this riot we come across the theme of violence where a cross injures one of the nought girls. Sephy is a witness to this violent act and wants to stand up for the noughts but during this she calls them “blankers” which causes issues for her and Callum’s relationship.

Also in this chapter Sephy trys in show Callum that she sees no difference in noughts and crosses and what people think about them by sitting with Callum and the other noughts at lunch but she is told off by one of the teachers and makes the situation worse. This chapter results in conflict because no one is treated equally and the crosses are seen as more important and the noughts as “nothings.” This has created negative affects for the children and is unfair because its not right and they all have this outlook on life where noughts and crosses can’t simply be friends.