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    sThe Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender Jessica Hobson Claudia has multiple voices reflecting her character and diverse experiences. Do you agree? How does your reading of the novel support this idea? Claudia is a complex‚ multi-dimensional character. Her various voices within The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender are shaped by both her experiences and values‚ which in turn reflect her use of language. Claudia’s ability of seamlessly shifting between the languages of different contexts

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    obvious that everyone has distinctive voices and by exploring and analyzing different people’s voices it is easy to realize that they convey everything you need to know about a person. Undoubtedly Andrew Paterson‚ Kylie Mole‚ Martin Luther King Jr. and Earl Spencer’s texts demonstrate their distinctive voices through their beliefs and contexts‚ creating an underlying meaning. It is with each and every word that these characters create meaning through their distinctive voices. It is without question

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    Distinctive Voices Notes

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    The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender Claudia Valentine Androgynous/masculine – “good looking blonde in there too” Erudite – Reference to Archimedes when in the bath Flippant – “One of the former and 2 of the latter.” Referring to husband and kids when asked about them Judgemental – “Piss-stained pants” "I woke up feeling like death." "I didn’t recall issuing the invitation but I must have." "Terminal Illness." "My legs are my best weapon." "...the smell was there‚ the smell of intrusion

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    How does your chosen film adhere to or diverge from the generic convention at play within the genre of the chosen film? ‘The Big Sleep’ (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is one of Raymond Chandler’s best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed in to a Film Noir‚ private detective film classic. The Big Sleep is the best example of a classic Warner Brothers mystery. It is very complex‚ confusing L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail

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    must be able to command an audience with his or her vocals. Each artist on this list have powerful and distinctive voices. Number One: Axl Rose. Rose is the frontman for the legendary band Guns N’ Roses. He is arguably one of the most unique voices in rock music. Notorious for his lead vocals in "Welcome to the Jungle‚" "Live & Let Die‚" and "Sweet Child O’ Mine." Rose’s aggressive and badass voice has made him a staple in the world of Rock music. In 2012‚ the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll

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    Composers develop distinctive voices withing a text to invoke reactions and create experiences that the audience experience as they read or view the text. The voices in the prescribed text ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender” written be Marele Day and the television series ‘Modern Family’ are very different‚ yet can be related through the similar themes. These themes are relationships and modern life and are convayed through the composers choice of voice. TL&COHL follows the character Claudia

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    In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ both authors‚ Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)‚ create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice‚ loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout

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    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

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    A distinctive voice is one in which challenges society’s values and or beliefs within a given context. In the text the life and crimes of harry lavender; Marele day has formed an incredibly distinctive voice in crime fiction. By subverting the elements of the hardboiled detective genre. Day has startled her audience with the distinctive voice of Claudia valentine‚ a 1980’s female private investigator in Sydney. The composer has used a range of techniques including first person narration and idioms

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    In the novel " The Big Sleep "‚ there’s a character by the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a private investigator who is hired to work for a wealthy  man named General Strenwood‚ in the month of october. General Sternwood wants Marlowe to deal with a blackmail on his wild young daughter Carmen . Carmen is being blackmailed by a book seller named Arthur Geiger she was also previously blackmailed by Joe Brody. Carmen is clearly the femme fatal who killed her brother in law Rusty because he

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