Essay on Tim Winton and Zohra Saed values

Australia is filled with many different aspects in which makes it the country it is today. I believe it is important to study texts that explore aspects of Australia by studying texts such as ‘The Club’, by David Williamson, a play written in 1977 about an Australian football club and movies such as “The Castle”, directed by Rob Stitch in 1997, about the daily life of an Australian family when their happiness is threatened when developers attempt to buy their house to expand the neighboring airport. Both these texts show us what Australian life was like in the past. By us looking at themes such as language, tradition and the mateship shown we are able to explore different aspects of Australia that make it what it is today.

analogies to make between these two works are, I think, those between the works' two

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

How each character’s relationship relates to native Australians grows for better or worse throughout the novel. The novel also shows how Grenville has incorporated each personal lifestyle and how it co-exists with the other. The novel incorporates past and modern views about each society and brings to attention controversial issues about Australia’s convict past and how Aborigines are being ostracized for their way of life and skin pigmentation.

The notion of the contemporary indigenous identity and the impact of these notions are both explored in texts that have been studied. Ivan Sen’s 2002 film ‘Beneath Clouds’ focuses on the stereotypical behaviours of Indigenous Australians highlighting Lina and Vaughn’s journey. This also signifies the status and place of the Australian identity today. Through the use of visual techniques and stereotypes the ideas that the Indigenous are uneducated, involved in crime and the stereotypical portrayal of white people are all explored. Similarly the notion of urban and rural life is represented in Kennith Slessor’s ‘William Street’ and ‘Country Towns’.

New experiences prompt individuals to reconsider their upheld values in the social context in which they’re placed. Tim Wintons short story, “Neighbours” questions Australia's social discourse by exploring the transition of individuals into a new phase of life. Winton challenges society’s ignorance and cultural stereotypes by displaying a provocative new experience which has the ability to manipulate and change individuals perspectives. Society’s ignorance can be

In the majority of stories we read, authors use literary elements such as setting, plot, or point of view, to try and illustrate their ideas and views, such as political views. In our short story unit, we have read many stories whose authors each define culture using different literary elements like the aforementioned ones. In “Saint Chola”, K. Kvashay-Boyle uses literary elements such as symbols, character, setting, and language, to develop cultural ideas about not only one culture, but three different cultures. She develops ideas about Muslims, Americans, and the sub-culture of junior high students in America. While developing ideas about these three cultures, Boyle also

Australia is also seen through the contrast of Jim and Ashley’s cultures – Jim living in Australia all his life, and Ashley being educated in England. Ashley is seen as higher class than Jim, because Ashley owns land, received a better education, while Jim is working class, and was educated in a one room school. Ashley’s classical taste in music suggests an education, also.

Many of Tim Winton’s fictional texts mirror moments in his own life, and with an understanding of Winton’s personal context, we can begin to discover the importance of these events and an understanding into why many of his text orbit around similar ideas. Through the insight given in his landscape memoirs, Lands Edge and Island Home, a more considered reading of his fictional texts; Breath, A Blow, A Kiss and Sand can be found. Specifically, these texts explore the role that landscape and place have had in shaping his perspectives and distaste of the expectations of Australian males. These texts each explore certain aspects of the expectations that men all over Australia are subjected to that Winton strongly opposes. Winton grew up in the 1960’s middle-class suburb of Karrinyup, WA, his working class Christian family’s beliefs and values, and events in his early life have evolved to form many of his present-day values towards landscape and masculinity.

By analyzing the deeper level meaning in the images presented, the reader’s sympathy increases. Primarily, Decaul uses the beginning of his poem to grasp the reader’s attention by explaining the tragic activity occurring on his birthday. In doing this he uses traumatic imagery, such as “black smoke rising” and “artillery strikes” to further describe the scenery upon his “birthday.” These meaningful descriptive images bring the reader in creating a connection between us and the inner feelings of the soldier. The idea of providing mental images, supports the distressing activities encountered on the soldier’s birthday. Even though the poem does not bluntly tell us Decaul is frightened at the setting, words, such as “tapping” and “reminds”, inform us of how he has taught himself to stay “safe.” Decaul has to

Hisham Matar, a well-known and awarded author, came to the university to discuss his novels In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance. He also read an excerpt out of his memoir The Return about returning to Libya to look more deeply into his father’s mysterious disappearance. His first two novels somewhat mirror what happened to him in his personal life. When asked about this coincidence, he said that people tend to draw from their own experiences. Although there are some similarities in stories, he said that his first two books are fiction. We got the chance to ask our own questions after hearing what he had to say about his work. Hisham was asked if he had any rituals he did in order to write his stories. He told us that he doesn’t

The theme of this poem is about the cycle of abuse and how abuse breeds more abuse in which not only the boy endures but the old woman and the speaker who were all affected and victims of this abuse. The theme of this poem does not only deal with abuse, pain and suffering but the author uses many devices such as imagery, tone and sounds to communicate the theme. The speaker and the theme combined add to the overall meaning of the

Then identify the main themes/ideas being compared. E.g. Justice (and the idea) and the noble lie(and idea)

The theme “home” incorporates many different meanings that can be either a place, person, item, or subject of memory in which impacts a particular individual’s experience. These different meanings were distinctly embellished in the art of poetry to express the significant value of “home.” The conditions that each poet faced during exile or crisis from the Middle East, Asia, and other countries were illustrated through verse in similar techniques and purpose. The ideas encompassed through each verse conveys deep struggle of lost, regain, and hope for their home. Even though the poets had nothing but “memories and the language, the portable world I [they] could carry” (Nafisi). Their loyalty to their home brought out strength, will, insight

Identity is a complex structure, however while complex and seemingly structured, it can also be very fluid. Identity is a prominent factor in not only how we represent ourselves to others, but also how we view ourselves. Not solidifying how you see yourself can be a long, tormenting process filled with doubt, conflict, and misunderstanding, however once you know yourself, a calming, peaceful, and fulfilling feeling comes over you like a rainbow after a thunderstorm. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir, The Warrior Woman, she endures the process of defining herself over a series of stories, not all of which are hers, and ultimately, comes to a conclusion about what her identity really is. Through becoming a background character, participating in anti-cultural behaviors, and adding her own crucial embellishments throughout her mother’s stories, Kingston navigates her own selfness and pieces together a fluid, yet satisfying identity as a storyteller, based on the identities of others.