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What do you learn about the character of Carmel in part one of the text? Consider her thoughts and her relationships with others, and one or two events which highlight an aspect of her character. You must include short and frequent quotations. Throughout part one of Carmel’s chapter in the book Queen Kat Carmel & St Jude Get a Life it becomes quite apparent that Carmel has unusually low self-esteem and she seems to feel atypically nervous on the subject of socially interacting with unfamiliar people. Just one of many examples of this behaviour is when Carmel is at her University, “There was a large courtyard filled with young people laughing and chatting. My first instinct was to flee.” This quotation suggests that she has an inclination towards becoming overwhelmed by crowds of people resembling her age. As soon as the first paragraph, Carmel displays evidence of her anxiety, for instance when she arrives at Katerina’s house in Melbourne she recalls thinking, “The crushing sense of doom that filled me when our car pulled into the kerb was not a new feeling.” The reader slowly develops a sense of Carmel’s self-hate as she constantly puts herself d