What Is The Mood Of Tom Clark Then And Now

How does the author use characterisation to explore the central themes of ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’?

The phases of life and social context is predicated through the sum of personal feats and experiences as crises and adversity are the greatest motivator which propel individuals to become better than they were before. J.C. Burke’s ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ is an example of the transitional process through entering a new, unknown area which acts as a catalyst for beneficial change. Hindered by emotional and physical turmoil, the protagonist Tom Brennan alleviates his devastated life in the new town of Coghill forming relationships along the way and achieving new goals. Lisa Forrest’s article ‘Testing new waters after leaving the swimming pool’ (TNWALTS) is another type towards transitional change that explores the personal crisis and career

The Past, an ever growing pool of time, is always biting at the heels of a person. It reminds him of what they have done wrong, done right, or when he did nothing. For most people, recalling the past leads to loose ends and blanks where memories should be. No matter how much a person may want to return to the past, it is not possible. It is lost forever. These forgotten moment lead to uncertainties and confusion in the present, and chaos in the future. Forgetting the past leads to spirals, spinning downwards as people look to what they have lost. They retrace their steps hoping to find a sliver of who they are and what may become of them. In the poem, Itinerary, Eamon Grennan shows how an individual searches through his past, but can never return to it. Through the poem and with a personal experience I will explain how individuals deal with uncertainties in their pasts.

Characters in ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ and how they deal with aspects of growing up or transitions into new phases of life and a broader world.

Individuals respond in various ways to transitioning into a new phase of life and society, these transitions can be challenging and confronting. They can also be transformative and thus some individuals accept and others reject because it’ll often initiate a series of consequences that may accelerate one’s personal growth and involuntarily change one’s perspective and/or attitude. These ideas are manifested in J.C Burke’s, ‘The story of Tom Brennan,' a move about the transitions that characters face after an indelible accident. In correspondence to the short story, ‘Neighbours’ by Tim Winton and is about a young couple moving from the city to the village and finding it difficult to reside with the European migrants.

Effectively, his deliberate use of syntax creates a structure in his essay which immerses the reader into the passage and allows his message to be conveyed. Often in the essay, he adopts compound-complex sentence structures to maximize his level of description and to fully establish the imagery he intends to create. Moreover, when he establishes depictions of action, motion, and speed, he creates considerably longer compound-complex sentences; using five or more clauses and at least one dash to thoroughly depict action, to eliminate any sense of pause, and to fully intrigue his readers. Such a usage of syntax is also parallel to when he writes that “...it was filled with motion, speed.” His lack of “and” but rather the word “speed” preceding a comma further represents the elimination of a sense of pause and his use of syntax in order to create a sense of speed and intensity. In the last paragraph, he continues his extensive use of compound-complex sentences and he suddenly slows down and ends his final part on shorter complex sentences.

A large portion of this poem is comparing the difference between black and white. In the poem it practically says “what if all the black is now white, and all the white is now black?”, then goes on to give some examples like “Black Presidents,

'Harwood's poems explore the impact of time and change on the reassessment of one's identity.'

For example, O’Brien starts the story off writing, “One morning in late July, while we were out on patrol near LZ Gator, Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen got into a fistfight.” This exhibits that the passage is written in an omniscient point of view. The author then explains how after Dave Jensen left Strunk in a splint and covered in gauze, “Jensen couldn’t relax. Like fighting two wars he said.” The anger and fear of Jensen can be compared to that of the writer of the poem. In the end, Jensen breaks his own nose and goes to Strunk to ask him if everything was square between them. Strunk responded by saying things were already square. This shows that Dave had been eating himself up inside over nothing. Although the passage is written from an omniscient perspective instead of first person, it also creates the central idea that building up anger and fear can lead to awful

Secondly, the speaker of the poem can be described as underprivileged, and this is shown throughout the entire poem. For example, line 1 of the poem it states "some are teethed on a silver spoon” and line 5 it states "some are swaddled in silk and down”. This shows that the speaker is not the same as the person who is teethed on a silver spoon or cared for very carefully. This inclusion also shows that the speaker was not born into a wealthy family and so the speaker must fight for what they need pertaining to themselves and the family.

In the novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck delves deep into each character thoroughly. Throughout the book, Steinbeck uses intricate descriptions in order to depict the development and subtleties of each character. Each character has a unique personality that essentially develops into new qualities and attributes. Such development is seen in many characters throughout the book, including Rose of Sharon. She is seen as immature at the start of the book, but by the end, she quickly learns to take the world into account and grows to become less selfish. This is only one of the substantial growths in character can be seen in the characters of this novel. One of the many characters in this novel that greatly

Secondly, Clark adds to the relationships within Ralph’s family. In the story, the reader does not read much about the people in the family. From the story, the reader knows that Ralph’s father— or as Ralph calls him, “the Old Man”— has a temper and a tendency to swear. The Old Man is a very hardworking man who is always fixing things,

The pain and grief of traumatic road accidents can complicate and severely damage many relationships, especially those in small, close knit communities. The line becomes blurred between perpetrators and victims, as beliefs become doubted, and sympathy arises for those who sadly lost their lives, and those who “move on from a moment that threatens to define them forever” (‘Shattered’, 2011). Viewers respond to compassion and remorse shown in the stories, typical views of perpetrators and victims become challenged, demonstrating the enormous influence of a person’s attitude on other’s perspective and opinion of them. The Story of Tom Brennan is an award winning Australian novel written by Jane Burke, published by Random House during 2005.

Both of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poems “Son of Mine” and “then and now” show element of historical context by showing metaphors for the horrors of the past. In Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Son of Mine” she describes what had been done to her and her tribe “ I could tell of crimes that shame mankind” these things happened in the past and she is struggling like most indigenous parents to tell them to her son. so “ I’ll tell instead of brave and fine” is the way she ends up putting it. Telling her son the good of the past and barring him from the horrids she had to face. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poems “then and now” describes what it was like for her in the past. “One time our dark children played” shows what her life use to be like and then compares it to today. “ where the factory belches smoke” this is what it was like for her with the things she use to have replaced with buildings and “grinding tram and hissing trains” Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poem “ then and now” shows elements of historical context as she remembers what it was like before “ the traffic and trade of the busy town. she says she “ remembers the didgeridoo calling us to play” these things that she remembers were replaced by what we have now. “ bank and shop and advertisement now” this line is written Aboriginal translated english to show that it was the aboriginals thats were feeling pain from these things and makes us

Tom Lux’s “The People of the Other Village” was written shortly after the first Iraq war and gained popularity after the 9/11 attacks.   The poem’s voice comes from an indifferent narrator whose unnamed village is at war with the people of an “other” unnamed village.  The exact reason that started this war is unclear; however, as the war escalates, the battle tactics evolve and are depicted in an alternating line structure that mimics the back and forth nature of reciprocal violence.  Ultimately, the author presents a poem that comments on human nature without committing to a judgment of that nature through subject matter, structure, and narrative voice.