use of projected images‚ music and dialogue‚ distinctively visual texts represent challenging aspects of life effectively. This is portrayed through texts such as John Misto’s play The Shoe Horn Sonata‚ Kevin McDonalds docu-drama Touching the Void and Roberto Innocenti’s picture book Rose Blanche. The shoe horn sonata by John Misto is a play that deals with the brutality of World War 2 by locking at the stories of two financial characters‚ Bridie and Sheila. When he wrote the play‚ Misto was concerned
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Compare in which ways distinctively visual images are created in The Shoe Horn Sonata and one related text Distinctively visual images can communicate important ideas to responders‚ allowing them to understand the perspective of the composer and the purpose of the text. In the “Shoe Horn Sonata” John Misto creates a play that surrounds two Prisoners of Wars (POW’s) characters who are forced to relive the memories of the past through an interview for a TV documentary. Through a variety of dramatic
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PAPER 2 SECTION 2 Practice Essay Module B The Shoe- Horn Sonata *** “The Shoe- Horn Sonata” is a play by John Misto that gives an insight into two lives of two female POWs in WW II and is a vector of Misto’s thoughts. It explores the little known and often terrible events associated with female prisoners of war. The play follows a friendship of two women through the war to a point of tension that’s beyond what any normal friendship would have to deal with. Misto engages his audience by using a multitude
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Compare in which ways distinctively visual images are created in The Shoe Horn Sonata and one related text Distinctively visual images can communicate important ideas to responders‚ allowing them to understand the perspective of the composer and the purpose of the text. In the “Shoe Horn Sonata‚” John Misto creates a play that surrounds two Prisoners of War(POW’S) characters who are forced to relive the memories of the past through an interview for a TV documentary. Through a variety of dramatic
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English Assignment The Pianist is about world war 2. The pianist is about how the Jewish were fighting with the Narzi because the Narzi wanted to take over the nation. Szpilman is the main character in the movie‚ he is known as a polish jew. He and his family are have limited resources and in order for them to gain money they had to sell their piano has sentimental value because it was treasured to him and his family. Szpilman and his family and the jewish were forced to move to another district
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but then i suppose I gotta look at it in a positive way‚ had she have not slept with Lipstick Larry I wouldn’t be here today. I believe the saying is an eye for eye‚ I saved her at sea and she saved me in camp‚ so when I think about it that bloody shoe-horn saved us both‚ who would of thought‚ but was it worth it. After being cured of that pesky cerebral malaria I still had to face the Japs each day‚ day in‚ day out and I still had to eat rice almost everyday and I still had to watch some of my best
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experiences. Explain how this is achieved in The Shoehorn Sonata and at least two other texts. Language helps us share other people’s experience. In the play the Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto‚ the use of symbolism‚ stage directions and dialogue enables the audience to feel empathy for the character as does the language used in the film Apocolyto and in the painting “He Ain’t Heavy‚ He’s My Brother” by Holly Wong. The Shoe Horn Sonata makes references to actual historical events and places.
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the women who lived through the war as Japanese prisoners of war. The play is a testimony‚ a memorial to their bravery and struggles for survival against all odds‚ including even the lack of recognition by the British of their existence. The Shoe Horn Sonata will only be produced by non government theatres. These theatres are usually low budget. Misto has tried to recreate the reality of the 1940’s. To do this the story is told through the dialogue and interaction of Bridie and Sheila. The use
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto has five main themes or concerns. They are; History and Memory‚ Power and Control‚ Heroism and Relationships and War and Atrocities. John Misto explores all these ideas while telling the story of Bridie and Shelia’s reunion fifty years after they last saw each other. The play is about the histories of the women and the nurses that were captive of the Japanese during World War Two; their individual histories and joint suffering. The stories of these women were
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response. | In the Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ John Misto uses an analysis of dramatic‚ language and visual techniques to construct powerful images of Bridie and Sheila’s experiences in the prisoner of war camp (POW). Misto explores‚ through the two friend’s testimonies‚ the untold story of hundreds and thousands of women imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II. He conveys these experiences through the use of techniques such as 1st person narration‚ symbolism and music. In the Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ Misto effectively
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