"The Wasp Factory" by "Iain Banks" is the book I chose to evaluate on. I will be studying the characterisation, setting, and the theme of this book.
             The book is written in the 1st person and is an unconventional and bizarre story. The plot is about a boy called "Frank," his weird life and his weird family. He has a dad who knows the measurements of every thing in the house and a brother who burns dogs and force-feeds maggots to children. His brother was in a mental centre but he escaped and throughout the story is making his way home, eating dogs and stealing to stay alive. His mother ran away soon after his little brother who has been murdered was born, breaking his fathers leg in the process, as she ran his over with her motorbike.
             Frank is sixteen years old and does not officially exist, he has a very weird lifestyle and a hatred for wasps.
             The characterisation in this book was one of the many reasons I enjoyed the book so much. The author, "Iain Banks," has not made the characters stereotypical; they are not quite lifelike but are also convincing, as you don't always meet sixteen year old boys who destroy whole rabbit colonies in one wild rage, or ones who sacrifice wasps.
             I do not identify with any of the characters in the book for obvious reasons but I understand them very easily.
             The author describes the characters through the words and thoughts of the main character this giving emotion in his description. Frank is a strange boy; in fact he is actually a girl. His father transformed him by giving him male hormones. Frank loves his brother 'Eric' and is excited about him escaping, Eric phones Frank many times through the book and the conversations usually end in Eric going mad and destroying the telephone box.
             Frank has found an old coastal bunker and made it his own. In this bunker he has the skull of his dad's old bulldog,' old saul,' a...