IQE Charts for Module A – Tim Winton’s Short Stories and The Poetry of Zohra Saed. Theme/Value: Identity Context and text (Tim Winton) Technique & Quote Explanation Technique & Quote Context and text (Zohra Saed) “Big World” is a story of two boys’ lives as they finish school and assert their independence in the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Context: Grew up in small towns in WA. Working class background. Father was a police officer and great story teller. Educated at university. Christian
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Significant events are pivotal in enriching ones understanding of their identity‚ which leads to an understanding of where they belong in the world. This is shown through our prescribed text “The Simple Gift” composed by Steven Herrick; as well as Tim Winton’s “The Turning”. | Steven Herrick’s free verse novel explores this value of events that shape a persons identity and hence their sense of belonging in their world. The cause of his alienation appears to be physical and psychological abuse from
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values inherent in each composer’s context. Compare and contrast how Winton and Saed explore similar values. Make detailed reference to your texts. An authors values and ideas originate and stem from their personal‚ historical and cultural context. By comparing the two authors Tim Winton (from an Australian context) and Zohra Saed (Afghani/New York context) we are able to see how similar values are shaped through identity/contex. Winton uses various literary techniques to embed personalised values into
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different points of view and influenced subconsciously by a number of exterior factors rather than consciously by oneself. Teachers and fellow students‚ it is this which makes the concept of Searching for Identity so captivating and enthralling. Tim Winton explores the ideas within the concept of Searching for Identity extensively within his collection of short stories‚ The Turning. Two of these said short stories have shaped my understanding of the concept of Searching for Identity are Abbreviation
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In the Tim Winton’s novel ‘Lands Edge’ and the 2009 film ‘Australia‚’ varying images of Australia are explored‚ through the illustration of the landscape as a result of the descriptive language used and also through the use of visual techniques used in the film ‘Australia’. Tim Winton’s ‘Lands Edge’ depicts various images of the costal‚ remote costal and suburban life of Australia throughout his life. In contrast in the film ‘Australia’ portrays images of the remote rural desert Australia landscape
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Father’s Axe by Tim Winton Setting ’My Father’s Axe’ begins at the main character’s semi-rural house. A house in which he had lived most of his life. This was a house filled with so many memories‚ stories and emotions. It is also the house where the main character discovers that his father’s axe had gone missing. The story is set in different periods of time‚ such as the main character’s boyhood‚ to when he has grown‚ married and started a family of his own‚ and later‚ to a time when his mother
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ClOUDSTREET By Tim Winton The title‚ Cloudstreet‚ although a bit plain‚ couldn’t be more appropriately named as everything that happens within the story revolves around the house nicknamed Cloudstreet. Winton sets this book around Perth‚ Western Australia‚ around the time of the second end of the Second World War over a span of twenty years. From reading other Winton novels it’s easy to see that his part of the country has had a big impact on him and he has a strong affinity with his country and
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tips of our noses while we trudge around town in the vain hope of scaring up some action. The southern sky presses down and the beaches and bays turn the colour of dirty tin. Somehow our crappy Saturday job at the meatworks becomes full-time and then Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exam results. The news is not good. A few of our classmates pack their bags for university and shoot through. Cheryl Button gets into Medicine. Vic Lang‚ the copper’s kid‚ is dux of the school
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Time and Tide In Time and Tide by Alfred Thompson Bricher the viewer quickly takes in the oceanic scenery of an oncoming storm near a beach. The foreground contains a shoreline with waves crashing on the wet sand. A reflection of the sky and a nearby cliff is created on the wet shore. In the top right corner there are brown-looking clouds. In the middle ground you see the vast ocean continuing through the horizon. The waves are stronger and seem to grow on the right side of the painting. To the
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Marvin Zabala SS014 – A85 C Tides and Times Time is like an ocean bed with each passing tides brings something new‚ Tides and Times is an article about the history that affected our generation‚ people that continue to inspire for as long as we can remember. Fernandez mentioned historical people who shape and influence his life
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