Harry Lavender
Good morning/ afternoon, teacher and HSC students,
Distinctive voices are an imperative device of language as there are various types and functions of 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 Proclamation to the German Nation in Berlin which was orated on the 1st of February, 1933, which shows the depth of his obsession and the power of self-delusion.
In the crime fiction text, the Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender the main character Claudia Valentine, whose voice is unique and original, is a confident and witty private investigator, living and working amongst Sydney’s seamy underworld crime. Her voice is individual from any other investigator, and isn’t discriminated by the stereotype label that society has on her job, as she comfortable uses the jargon: ‘the crims don’t discriminate anyway: they’ll blow away a woman on their trail as readily as a man’.
Day intended to create Claudia’s voice to make it believable to the responder as she has lack of formality, often speaking in colloquial terms familiar to an Australian reader for instance she says ‘A spanner in the works. The hi-tech heart spasming out of control’. Claudia’s distinct voice ensures a tough yet genuine voice, one full of confidence and strength but also vulnerabilities and uncertainties, which Day demonstrates that Claudia’s voice can be professional, and at times, softer, to overcome the different challenges of the genre.
Harry Lavender is the antagonist of the novel, who is the boss of Sydney’s underworld. Lavender was
Distinctive voices are an imperative device of language as there are various types and functions of 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 Proclamation to the German Nation in Berlin which was orated on the 1st of February, 1933, which shows the depth of his obsession and the power of self-delusion.
In the crime fiction text, the Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender the main character Claudia Valentine, whose voice is unique and original, is a confident and witty private investigator, living and working amongst Sydney’s seamy underworld crime. Her voice is individual from any other investigator, and isn’t discriminated by the stereotype label that society has on her job, as she comfortable uses the jargon: ‘the crims don’t discriminate anyway: they’ll blow away a woman on their trail as readily as a man’.
Day intended to create Claudia’s voice to make it believable to the responder as she has lack of formality, often speaking in colloquial terms familiar to an Australian reader for instance she says ‘A spanner in the works. The hi-tech heart spasming out of control’. Claudia’s distinct voice ensures a tough yet genuine voice, one full of confidence and strength but also vulnerabilities and uncertainties, which Day demonstrates that Claudia’s voice can be professional, and at times, softer, to overcome the different challenges of the genre.
Harry Lavender is the antagonist of the novel, who is the boss of Sydney’s underworld. Lavender was