Why do you think John Marsden and Shaun Tan chose this image‚ over all the others for the cover of The Rabbits? The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan is a perspicacious insight into the colonization of Australia from the perspective of the colonized. The appropriated image of Captain Cook’s arrival in 1770 was an inquisitively chosen illustration as it provoked a provocative response from the viewer making it glaringly obvious as to why Tan chose this as the front cover. Through decisive
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“The Rabbits” is a picture book written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan. With the use of visual and language techniques Marsden and Tan depict and help develop our understanding about wider issues within the community. Marsden and Tan skilfully display more sophisticated issues that are not so commonly aimed at children such as conflict‚ industrialisation and loss of culture which are all an adverse effect of colonisation. “The Rabbits” is an allegory that represents the destructive
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Shaun Tan Shaun Tan‚ born in 1974‚ is an award winning illustrator and author of many well-known children’s books. Tan was born and raised in Fremantle‚ Western Australia‚ where as a boy‚ spent his time writing and illustrating poems and stories. Tan was known at his primary school as very talented artist. Through out high school‚ Tan continued his passion for illustrating‚ where he was enrolled in a special art program for gifted students. However‚ Tan eventually took an academic path into university
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Memorial By Gary Crew and Shaun Tan There are many techniques used to create meaning in the text ‘Memorial’ written by Shaun Tan and Gray Crew. A detailed examination of any double page from Memorial can show how well the author and illustrator uses these techniques to show meaning. One technique used in the Fourth Opening is the use of objects. There are many images in this opening‚ one of which is the fading picture of Old Pa. The drawing shows the viewer what Old Pa looks like and it shows
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a beautiful‚ magical‚ haunting‚ hopeful‚ human story told entirely in pictures. Like the experience of the main character who comes to a new land and makes his way with the help of others‚ I have relied on the words of others to help me write and shape this review. The review of The Arrival at bn.com started with a quote form one of my favorite authors‚ Philip Pullman‚ and is the perfect place to begin writing and thinking about this exceptional book: "Stories can be
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Shaun Tan (1974) -Conceptual Framework- Artist Shaun Tan grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth situated in Western Australia. As a young boy he was always known as the “good drawer” at school which‚ in a way‚ made him forget about being the shortest kid in every class. In 1995‚ he graduated from the University of Western Australia with joint honours in English Literature and Fine Arts and is now working full time as a freelance author and artist in Melbourne. Shaun started sketching and
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The Arrival - Shaun Tan Where the text came from The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images‚ it was illustrated by Shaun Tan in 2006. Purpose of text The fact that Shaun Tan grew up in Perth‚ he said was one of the main reasons for making so many novels based on the concept of belonging‚ he describe Perth as being one of the most isolated cities in the world‚ sandwiched between a vast desert and a vaster ocean‚ and they lived in a “freshly minted northern suburb that was
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individuals and their respective environments‚ their sense of ‘belonging’ to a place. Shaun Tan’s ‘The Arrival’ stands to convey the feelings of isolation‚ belonging (and the desire to belong)‚ the long process of integration and establishing a sense of familiarity‚ security and friends. The story emphasises the isolation that is often experienced by many people arriving somewhere new and unfamiliar. Tan demonstrates the different aspects in which we may or may not belong to a particular group
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English Essay I believe John Marsden and Shaun Tan chose this image‚ over all the other images in the book for the cover of the Rabbits as it portrays the starting point of the drama that is about to unfold‚ the incredible numbers of rabbits is hinted at and it provides a thorough insight into the story and it communicates many significant ideas put across in the book such as the menacing nature of the rabbits‚ urbane culture of the rabbits‚ contrast of cultures between the rabbits and the native
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In the openings of pages 9 and 10 of ‘The Rabbits’‚ written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan‚ techniques such as colour symbolism‚ font and salience and reading path are used to create issues involving the mistreatment of the Aborignal people after the ‘Invasion”. Colour symbolism is used in many different ways in this opening to emphasise how the Aboriginal are being treated by the European settlers. The colour of the rabbits’ clothing shows us their superiority to the Aboriginal
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