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    Composers create distinctive voices in their texts to help shape‚ challenge or even support perceptions we have about the world we live in. Composers use distinctive voices in their texts to help us think about the significant issues involved in the world around us. Marele Day‚ in “the Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender”. Using the form of a crime fiction to challenge our perceptions of the role of men and women in the world we live in. Martin Luther King’s speech “I have a dream” also explores these

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    Lavender Motif used throughout the Book: Lavender is a flower of beauty‚ when spraying the lavender sent is a relaxant to the senses .Harry lavender is the opposite breaking away from the beauty and definition of lavender. Claudia Valentine: Her negative tone towards Sydney shows throughout the book. Quote | Technique | Äs I got out of bed I realised I wasn’t the only one in it. There was a good looking blonde in there as well" p.1 | Synecdoche (a figure of speech in which the word for part

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    au     info@hscstudybuddy.com.au       HSC  STUDY  BUDDY   HOW  DISTINCTIVE  VOICES  SHAPE  MEANING  –  SEMINAR   NOTES  TO  EXPAND  UPON   The  Life  and  Crimes  of  Harry  Lavender   The  Distinctive  Voice  of  Claudia  Valentine   – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – First  person  narrative‚  short  sentences‚  disregard  for  strictly  correct

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    voices in texts. The way language is used to create voices in texts and to show how it is used to express the interpretation and to shape the meaning of distinctive voices‚ I will be using examples from crime fiction text‚ “The life and Crimes of Harry Lavender” by Marele Day‚ which both supports and subverts the traditionally male hard-boiled detective through inferential choices of language. I will be focusing on the distinctive voices of Claudia Valentine‚ and Harry Lavender. My related text is Hitler’s

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    voices? The life and crimes of Harry Lavender‚ Marele day guides the reader into the world of the novel through narrative perspective‚ tone‚ detailed description and personifying the setting. Bruce Dawes anti-war poem‚ “Weapons training uses a low first person perspective‚ strong tone‚ but also uses rhetorical questions and onomatopoeia to convey the brutality of the war‚ while Day uses descriptive language to convey the characters as well as the action. In both texts we uphold a strong sense

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    Technique & Justification Harry Lavenderpowerful‚ arrogant‚ smug‚ egotistical‚ sinister‚ ominous “I wake from this dream with the same coffin smile” -Metaphor‚ Personification Superhuman qualities‚ the feeling that he is pure evil as we think of vampires in coffins with wicked smiles brings out his distinctive voice. “Every person living and breathing‚ and many that were dead knew the name of that cancerous growth that went by the name of harry lavender” -Metaphor Gives us the feeling

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    The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender is crime novel about contemporary Australian life‚ written with all the ambiguity and moral sophistication of most “who dun-nits ". It looks like crime‚ and sounds like crime‚ and sells like crime‚ but -- it’s Literature! Its Opening is a subversion of the genre - a reversal of expectation as we are duped into believing this is your typical male private eye (P.I.). The role reversal - a female in a traditional male dominated field; women can do everything

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    Harry Lavender - essay How does the use of distinctive voices influence the reader’s response to people and events in The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender and one other related text of your own choosing? Composers use distinctive voices in their texts to enable us to think about significant issues in the world. Marele Day‚ in her novel ‘’ The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender ‘’ (LACOHL) display a distinctive voices of Claudia and Lavender with reflect the underbelly of Sydney. Day uses he detective

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    HARRY LAVENDER SPEECH GOOD MORNING As you all know‚ even a visual tells a story. However‚ characters in a text through distinctive voices demonstrate their personalities which contribute to an insightful understanding of the text. Marele Dey’s novel‚ The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (Harry…) 1988 expounds the criminal activities of crime boss Harry Lavender whose distinctive voice though unheard is loudest in the text portraying his personality of a corrupt crime lord. In conjunction the

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    "Witty‚ wryly humorous and fast-paced‚ "The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender" is a thriller with a twist which brilliantly evokes the sleaze below the surface of the city’s glittering façade". Is this what the novel is about? Marele Day’s novel‚ "The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender" explores a large scope of issues related to crime and mystery writing. The use of simple language‚ symbolism‚ clever wit and a certain sense of satirical mockery all contribute to composing this witty‚ wryly humorous

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