Module A: Experience through language
Distinctively Visual - Henry Lawson
Related Text - Crocodile Dundee by Peter Faiman
Essay Question 1: “In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctively visual?”
Throughout the short stories, The drovers wife, In a dry season, The loaded dog and The bush undertaker by Henry Lawson and the related text Crocodile Dundee as a movie by Peter Faiman, people and their experiences are brought to life not only through distinctively visual but using visual language techniques, visual techniques, characters personalities and the structure of the texts. The composers bring their characters to life by relating the events and experiences to everyday problems,…show more content… It relates to the way people may have been living, the events and experiences they may come across, so to the reader this drags them in and also makes the characters seem alive. The story opens with a detailed description of the house even including the simple materials used to build it. This tells us about the economic status of the possible inhabitants of the house. Lawsons quotes “ The Drover, an ex-squatter, is always away with his sheep. His wife and children are left alone.” and “ Nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilisation - a sanity on the main road” Setting the scene of loneliness and isolation, this gives the reader the first thing to relate…show more content… He does this by using a strong Australian identity, with the land, clothing, the way they talk, the actions of the “Mick” the main character when he goes to New York and much more. The main experience that brings “Mick” to life is when he goes to New York and is threatened with a knife to hand over his wallet, his naive personality laughs and says “thats not a knife, this is a knife” and pulls out a much larger knife and scares them off.
Many events occur like this throughout the movie which seem to create a stereotype of Australians and Australia, which bring the characters, and their personalities alive to the
