Analysis
Expository Essay
The two stories that will be analysed are The Hitch-Hiker by Francis Greig and Wattle Tree Town by Beatrice Ballangarry.
The Hitch-Hiker has an English cultural background whereas Wattle Tree Town has an Indigenous/Aboriginal background. The cultural differences in the stories give each story different views on situations and different forms of bias. The cultural differences of the readers affect the meaning of the stories as readers would bring different views to the story making it meaningful in different ways.
The generic structure of the Hitch-Hiker begins as Carole Phillips is rushing to the train station after a long night trying to get through the rainy weather. The rising action takes on after she has bordered the seventy minute train trip and as she is heading over to her car, when she suddenly encounters a woman who wants a ride into town. She decides to give the lady a ride to her home. The climax of the story is when they settle into the car and Carole notices the masculine-like hairy hands of the so said ‘lady’. The falling action begins as Carole convinces the ‘lady’ that her car needs a push start and as the lady heads out, without thinking Carole starts the car and heads out of the car park to the police station. The resolution of the story is when Carole shows the sergeant the bag that the ‘lady’ had left in the car and in complete shock they discover an axe.
The Hitch-Hiker is written in 3rd person point of view and positions the reader as if their Carole Phillips (main character, protagonist). The reader is made to feel positive and to like the main character. For the hitch-hiker on the other hand we have neutral feelings at first, but then we grow suspicious as the protagonists thoughts and seeing’s are brought into the scene about the situation. When the axe is revealed in the hitch-hikers bag we are positioned to dislike the hitch-hiker and he becomes the antagonist in the story. The cultural differences of the reader
The two stories that will be analysed are The Hitch-Hiker by Francis Greig and Wattle Tree Town by Beatrice Ballangarry.
The Hitch-Hiker has an English cultural background whereas Wattle Tree Town has an Indigenous/Aboriginal background. The cultural differences in the stories give each story different views on situations and different forms of bias. The cultural differences of the readers affect the meaning of the stories as readers would bring different views to the story making it meaningful in different ways.
The generic structure of the Hitch-Hiker begins as Carole Phillips is rushing to the train station after a long night trying to get through the rainy weather. The rising action takes on after she has bordered the seventy minute train trip and as she is heading over to her car, when she suddenly encounters a woman who wants a ride into town. She decides to give the lady a ride to her home. The climax of the story is when they settle into the car and Carole notices the masculine-like hairy hands of the so said ‘lady’. The falling action begins as Carole convinces the ‘lady’ that her car needs a push start and as the lady heads out, without thinking Carole starts the car and heads out of the car park to the police station. The resolution of the story is when Carole shows the sergeant the bag that the ‘lady’ had left in the car and in complete shock they discover an axe.
The Hitch-Hiker is written in 3rd person point of view and positions the reader as if their Carole Phillips (main character, protagonist). The reader is made to feel positive and to like the main character. For the hitch-hiker on the other hand we have neutral feelings at first, but then we grow suspicious as the protagonists thoughts and seeing’s are brought into the scene about the situation. When the axe is revealed in the hitch-hikers bag we are positioned to dislike the hitch-hiker and he becomes the antagonist in the story. The cultural differences of the reader