Task - Dolly Pickles 1. Compose two statements to describe your selected character. After each statement‚ select two short passages from the text that you think demonstrate your statements. Discuss each passage in relation to why it demonstrates your statement. Include references to tone‚ allegory‚ characterisation‚ context‚ and setting. Each statement’s should be at least 250 words. In the play Cloudstreet adapted by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo‚ one of the protagonist’s Dolly Pickles
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Text response homework: “Dolly and Oriel have more in common than they realise.’’ Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet presents two seemingly dissimilar families that are forced to live together in the same house. This piece of fiction contrasts many characters with diverse morals and behaviours‚ in particular the two mothers of the families‚ Dolly Pickles and Oriel Lamb. Beneath the surface‚ these women have more in common than they realise‚ especially when it concerns gaining power‚ suffering trauma
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Merv was a gambler · Sam inherited his (Merv’s) gambling addiction · Sam’s mother didn’t want Sam to be a jockey · Sam works on the island Albohros · Shovels guao phosphate on the island · Has 3 kids‚ Chub Rose Ted · Sam’s wife is Dolly · Dolly is unfaithful · Dolly is often depicted as a tramp or a slut · Sam depends on luck to get through life · He has a larrikin attitude (She’ll be right attitude’) · Sam’s Mother and Father had a very shifty‚ empty relationship with each other. · Many people
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An inherent tension between stability and change is revealed through characterization in Cloudstreet. ‘It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary‚ decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.’ C. S. Lewis. Lewis’s hypothetical situation raises questions on how a person‚ the bird he is metaphorically referring to‚ must undergo a
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for all the theatre which followed. ‘Cloudstreet’ has won countless awards‚ including the National Book Council ward‚ the West Australian Premier’s Award and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for its inspiring and influential narrative. Winton began his writing of ‘Cloudstreet’ while staying in an apartment maintained by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in Paris to give Australian writers an opportunity to live in Europe. The plot of ‘Cloudstreet’ is about the two families‚ the Lambs
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in Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is Dolly Pickles. Dolly has the ability to inflict a variety of emotions in the reader. Due to her persona to be a ‘slut‚’ alcoholic and a bad mother there are strong negative emotions invoked however as Dolly’s representation drastically changes the audience feels pity and sorrow for her. There are various symbols and language features that are associated with Dolly and as a consequence heighten the character’s influence in the reader’s response. Dolly is the wife of
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literary devices. In Cloudstreet by Tim Winton‚ one of the most prominent of these devices is symbolism‚ which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harboured by the text’s audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. Indeed‚ Cloudstreet itself‚ the river and religious symbolism contribute to meaning and the author’s endorsement of love‚ family‚ determination‚ and spirituality in the search for completeness. The house Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic in
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Reading Tim Winton’s rollicking‚ heartbreaking‚ hopeful saga‚ Cloudstreet‚ you are immersed in Australia: its histories‚ its peoples‚ its changing values‚ and its multiple longings. It is Australia imagined large and sprawling‚ but also in ordinary‚ intimate detail from a particular dot on the map: working class Perth‚ Western Australia‚ from the 1940s to the 1960s. Humorously‚ lyrically and poignantly‚ the novel probes questions of where and how to belong. Always already transient and haunted‚ belonging
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The prologue of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet transcends one family’s tragic loss into the realms of the metaphysical‚ commenting on his views of life and death. Readers can contrast these views to our more modern ideologies. Through the use of poetic language Winton adds a spiritual dimension to the lives of people living in a secular society. Through imagery he also offers a construction of Australian cultural identity. Using techniques like point of view‚ repetition‚ juxtaposition‚ symbolism‚ as well
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masculinity and femininity are naturalised in almost every society‚ but differ based on diverse environments‚ values and changing time periods. In literature‚ these assumptions come to underpin the construction of key characters. * In Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet‚ for example‚ the setting of post- war Australia presents several conjectures regarding gender. * Men‚ especially in an economic boom‚ were expected to help rebuild and drive the economy. * As a result of this‚ in the 1940’s and 60’s
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