Analyse how experiences and attitudes are conveyed with the use of distinctive images in the texts you have studied.
The Drovers Wife
Down Under
In A Dry Season
Simplistic language
landscape
narration
omniscent
mostly in present tense
3rd person
character
stoic
protective
heroic
hardened
strong
independent
descriptive language
unrelenting
monotomy
isolated
harsh
bleak
uninviting
image of bush extends to reflect life of Wife as well as the age and ramshackle like quality of the house
absence of name while also being identified
repetition
"Bush all round - bush with no horizon"
onomatopoeia
"Thud, thud"
symbol
Black snake = death
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she fought...
bush fire
flood
pleuro-pneumonia
mad bullock
wearing pants in bushfire = being the man
sameness
predictability
ramshackle
desolation
idle
unfruitful
boring
uneventful
homodiegetic narration
narrator participates as character in the story
characters
sketches
stereotypes
generalistaion
represent/signify group of people
monotony
truncated sentences
"It is."
euphemism
"...through to the bitter end."
indirect word or phrase to elude to something blunt or embarrassing
authorial intrusion
"God bless the publican and the coach-driver! God forgive our social system!"
compound sentence
undermining
"perhaps signifies death in the family at some remote date, and perhaps doesn't
making unrealistically simple judgements
"We crossed the Macquarie - a narrow, muddy gutter
exaggeration
"...the father of a hiding."
comparison
"Where women glow and men plunder
"Where beer does flow and men chunder
colloquial language
rhyme
fried out combie
hippie trail
head full of zombie
under plunder thunder cover
repetition
last three choruses same
Fade out of song
represents Australian's ignorance to the warnings of verses before
far tracking shot
show the difference of distance between the two as the white group gets further away while the black group fall further behind carrying the cumbersome coffin with a guard whipping them
"The choruses were really about the death of the spirit of this place, my fear of the over-corporatisation of this country, which I think has happened and will continue to happen and is inevitable, perhaps." - Hay
"run and take cover"
wood chipping, cutting down old-growth forests
light up of scene in Bombay
Attitude that being an Australian is good and amazing
shows the attitudes and differences of what people think of Australia
stuffed koala represent government
shows the attitude of whites being superior to indigenous
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stereotypical australia
challenging original perceptions