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Harry Lavender Distinctive Voices
Language lies at the core of communication. The various forms and function of language generates new awareness and also develops the new understanding of the perception of the world through the written, spoken and visual language in all different kind of texts. Distinctive Voices relate to the use of language affects interpretation and shape meaning within texts, depending on the textual medium. This can relate to register, tone, diction, dialogue, idiom, expression, context and the role played by silence. In Marele Day's "The Life And Crimes Of Harry Lavender", the use of the first person narrative voice. The composer Day immediately indicates that the reader will be seeing the event of the narrator's point of views and hearing about them …show more content…

All the characters in the “Life and crimes of Harry Lavender” are colourful and very distinctive, the use of the characterisations covey different voices from the composer and the story itself. A dominant female character in what have been traditionally male roles is an interesting feature of texts. In the "Life and crimes of Harry Lavender" the character of Claudia, the use of the female's voices is very distinctive. It generates voices to represent ideas and attitudes from the composer. Claudia valentine as the protagonist, she has a very distinctive voice. Marele Day portrays this perception in the result of different tones. Claudia's language is reflective and introspective. She has a very distinctive voice. Marele Day portrays this by confusing the audience's expectation from Claudia, who is not independent or strong, and needs help. She is shown as being sexual liberated “I will slip into something more comfortable, like your bed." However, in reality, Claudia is a strong, independent, and hard-boiled genre detective. Day has described her investigator as “A woman in her own right who maintained her identity. More importantly, she could be any woman.” The investigator's voice of Claudia is inclusive, inviting reader into her murder investigation and her personalities. “I had that insidious feeling Mark must have felt if ever he'd looked up and caught Mrs.

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