(INTRO) John Misto’s drama ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ depicts the journey of two women captured by the Japanese during World War ll. The play reveals the unresolved problems of their relationship after fifty years. The reunion of Bridie and Sheila and their problems are dramatized and resolved through Misto’s use of dramatic techniques. He effectively creates images of tension‚ hardship‚ hope and survival‚ friendship and forgiveness to emphasize the relationship between the two women. (DOUBLE-HANDER)
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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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identity but he ran out and moved to another hotel. In 1944 august 1st the Russians came in and conquered Germany. The film shows a relation to Distinctively visual on how we can see the images in the film. we can also visualise or imagine on what it would be like if we were in their shoes. The film ‘the pianist’ shows variety of visual techniques‚ such as the black and white colour during the opening of the movie‚ it tells us the movie is revolves around the past. The effect of the gun firing when the
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Model Farm High. My name is sunny and I am going to briefy discuss about the play Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto in relation to distinctively visual. The Shoe Horn Sonata is a play that shows distinctively visual narratives of female prisoners of war. Misto convey ideas of female survivors who live through war in Japanese camps suffering brutality from their violent Japanese oppressors. He does this by using visual techniques including photographs displaying humiliation‚ starvation and torture and
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto ‘Distinctively Visual’ After your reading‚ please answer the following questions to show your understanding. Please write in full sentences‚ in your own words‚ using evidence from the text where you can. 1 Describe what you see on the front cover of the play. What clues does this give you about the play? 2 After the Contents’ page there is a photograph. Who is this photograph of? 3 What do you learn from the information you are given about the
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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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John Misto‚ playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women’s story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this through a combination of dramatic techniques‚ themes‚ characterisation and settings making the past vivid and understandable. The characters presented in the Shoe-Horn Sonata are fictional‚ but the events
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heir language forms and features. The composer John Misto of ‘Shoe-Horn Sonata’ creates a wide image of distinctive visual techniques through imagery. John Misto uses this visual technique to raise awareness of the damaged chaos that occurred to the women who have been captured by the Japanese. By using distinctively visual techniques Misto allows the viewers to empathise with the crucial actors/segregation that the Japanese people were showing towards the women. “I wanted to cry. But I reminded
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the distinctively visual can be seen as a process of connecting an image with an idea‚ the distinctive quality of the visual lies in its capacity to elicit a powerful response and plant it within the reader’s mind‚ in order to cultivate as the themes‚ characters and plot of the material begins to broaden. Distinctively visual texts have the power to provoke reactions from responders whether that would be reactions of pleasure or anger and most intentions of distinctive visuals is to provoke us to
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Distinctively visual is an element that analyses language to help the audience construct and perceive visual images‚ shape meaning and to interpret main ideas and themes. Distinctively visual is based on the literature forming some sort of visualisation. The factors that make up the module include visual‚ aural and oral. The elements of distinctively visual include characterisation‚ dialogue‚ gesture‚ body language‚ dance‚ music‚ sounds effects‚ stage directions‚ dramatic imagery‚ lighting‚ symbolism
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