Colleen Mccullough's The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough – The Remarkable Author
The Thorn Birds is a good story that McCullough’s skill lies in. It is to be regretted that she is not a serious literary stylist. Unquestionably, her characters are sometimes standardized, their approaches about each other tend to be too authentic and too specific. Moreover, stories about the people is always cared by readers. Besides, readers also believe in those stories. She has the aptitude of weaving the reader into her novels to the extent that unbelievable stories become believable.
Firstly, McCullough’s work is unmistakably old-fashioned. She writes most of her stories in the past, she employs an unsophisticated narrative style, and her characters are entangle in predicament of aspiration …show more content…
She has been frequently employed this technique by setting the story in a different era. This provides a cushion between the events of the novel and the reader, allowing the author to concentrate on the characters without having to worry in current events. In romance novels, the “once upon a time” technique is a standard practice. However, she focuses on her themes of responsibility, praise, and uncomplicated endurance. As a results, she can save her job from becoming normal. The love cases in McCullough’s novels are never straightforward. In instance, the love case between a young girl - Meggie Cleary and an older priest - Father Ralph de Bricassart in the Thorn Birds is one of them. They involve, for example, an older woman and a young retarded man, or a young girl and an older priest. Furthermore, the characters’ lives is further perplexed by events such as social encounter.
Secondly, in all of McCullough’s books, a stubborn character is the area where the work is set. From Drogheda in The Thorn Birds, she creates an image of the setting so specific that it is a steady effect on the characters and takes on human life. In addition, an extra dimension to the characters is added by her creative and well-used skill of slang in
The Thorn Birds is a good story that McCullough’s skill lies in. It is to be regretted that she is not a serious literary stylist. Unquestionably, her characters are sometimes standardized, their approaches about each other tend to be too authentic and too specific. Moreover, stories about the people is always cared by readers. Besides, readers also believe in those stories. She has the aptitude of weaving the reader into her novels to the extent that unbelievable stories become believable.
Firstly, McCullough’s work is unmistakably old-fashioned. She writes most of her stories in the past, she employs an unsophisticated narrative style, and her characters are entangle in predicament of aspiration …show more content…
She has been frequently employed this technique by setting the story in a different era. This provides a cushion between the events of the novel and the reader, allowing the author to concentrate on the characters without having to worry in current events. In romance novels, the “once upon a time” technique is a standard practice. However, she focuses on her themes of responsibility, praise, and uncomplicated endurance. As a results, she can save her job from becoming normal. The love cases in McCullough’s novels are never straightforward. In instance, the love case between a young girl - Meggie Cleary and an older priest - Father Ralph de Bricassart in the Thorn Birds is one of them. They involve, for example, an older woman and a young retarded man, or a young girl and an older priest. Furthermore, the characters’ lives is further perplexed by events such as social encounter.
Secondly, in all of McCullough’s books, a stubborn character is the area where the work is set. From Drogheda in The Thorn Birds, she creates an image of the setting so specific that it is a steady effect on the characters and takes on human life. In addition, an extra dimension to the characters is added by her creative and well-used skill of slang in