Wintriness Chapter Summary

The purpose of Big World is to present to his responders a relatable and recognisable character and setting and a familiar situation. Winton’s purpose is to allow his readers to reflect on the choices they made after school and how their lives may have been different had they been more active in exploring their hopes and dreams.

When the author’s father passed away, Wes was in shock, he said, “everything around you vanishes, all you hear is wind filling your ear, all you feel is the wind on your skin.... Your mind all but empties.” (Moore, 14) He couldn’t think or do anything. He was lost.

In the following passage by saying that “it was white and warm, and it crept up behind them,” smoke from the building collapsed is being personified.

The imagery causes this feeling to seem tangible to the reader, together with using imagery to accentuate the grimy environment, lack of safety and eerie mood. The “strange light, the colour of an egg yolk” (p. 302) is very pictorial. This visual imagery allows the reader to clearly picture the yellow light bathing the lounge, in the same way the atmosphere of eeriness and gloom is highlighted. The smell “of dust and turpentine” (p. 302), is another description, this time olfactory, that feels extremely real. As the reader, you can feel the musty, chemical filled air burn your nostrils. It’s as though you are right there beside Charlie in the dusty, rundown

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black. (Larson

Masculinity, the attributes applied to the male gender, has continuously manifested itself within the matrices of literature, with many writers using narrative fiction as a vehicle to explore ideas of the historical underpinnings of manhood, and more generally, alternative constructions of the male ontology and modality. Transcendental notions of masculinity have inevitably constrained the contemporary man within set ideologies and values — those which often enforce unrealistic and toxic expectations. This conundrum is especially relevant in Australian society given the stereotypical and diffused archetype of the ‘Aussie Man’; which characteristics such as apathy, nobility and strength forming the bedrock of the national identity. Tim Winton, a prominent Australian author, has recognised and highlighted this issue in his collection of short stories The Turning, effectively challenging timeless stereotypes and portraying distinctive

“The basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations” (Wharton 13).

“It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it- hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction” (Larson

The rest of her body was its natural shade—more the color of fawn than coal” (48), is another example of description that not only lets the reader picture what Henrietta’s skin looks like but also lets them think about how much pain she must have been

Conflict drives the audience into the lives of others, making it the best literature. Tim Winton expresses his childhood experiences in his short stories, such as 'Big World'. The conflict includes the narrator’s inner feelings, conflict with his Mother and Biggie, being successful and his attitude towards the environment.'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1870) is a poem, composed by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The conflict includes the devastation of war and the brave soldiers who fought.

He first emphasizes how ample and bright the place is. He also narrates how there are “poisonous particles… as motes in sun-beams, into the lungs” (40). He expresses how suffocating this place is with a cough (14). The fact that the women don’t cough and are “used to it” is like saying they don’t breathe anymore. He describes the women as the “blank-looking girls, with blank, white folders in their blank hands” (12). He portrays these women as cadavers being preserved in this cold place, like a morgue. He says, “…face pale with work, and blue with cold; an eye supernatural with unrelated misery” (11). He is intentionally making the reader feel they are dead alive through the description of a physical death, then a social and emotional death.

In Melville’s short story placed on Wall Street, the narrator describes the setting of a bleak office to have a white wall of the interior of a spacious sky-light shaft, penetrating the building from top to bottom on one end, on the other it contrasted in the direction

He ends his experience by comparing himself to his son once again by feeling, “the chill of death,” as his own son must have felt when clothing him with wet swimming trunks. To the reader, White’s knowledge about the area and activities makes him appear as a veteran to this location, especially when he mentions how the days back when he was younger were different to

wind. It was as if it was crying, almost howling for its voice to be

The scene is of great visual impact, with dark figures glimpsed merely as silhouettes in the dusty air and hazy light of the machine room. Through a screen of smoke an accident is viewed by Freder, who is fittingly dressed in white garb. He is absolutely shocked as he witnesses the dark figures bearing the casualties file past, shot against the light.