Higher School Certificate
“A picture can tell a thousand words.”
Good morning HSC standard English students, it is a honor to be invited to speak to you about some texts you have been studying for your upcoming higher school certificate exam. Distinctively visual texts portray powerful messages through the clever use of language features in order to create visual imagery in our minds.
Now let's begin.. I ask you all to close your eyes and think of a time you have experienced adversity...
Henry Lawson, Edward Hopper and Julie O’Callaghan’s have successfully depicted how adversity is dealt with through their works. Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s wife’ and Edward Hopper’s (painting) and Julie O’Callaghan’s (poet) ‘Automat’ (1972) display distinctively visual images of both suburban and rural women suffering the challenge of isolation and loneliness and escape from reality. Similarly, Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Loaded Dog’ explores the concept of adversity but depicts interconnection and mateship as a means of dealing with a difficult situation. The powerful images expressed in all three works not only function to create meaning but also challenge the viewers understanding of themselves and the world they interact in. Through the use of language techniques and imagery we begin to recognize these themes of isolation, wanting to escape from reality and mateship.
Now if many of you still don’t know much about Lawson’s writing, here is a brief summary you should know. Lawson was writing in the later stages of the 19th century, a period when Australians were developing pride in their own country. Most of Lawson’s stories are about the bush. He wrote them so suburban people would know the lifestyle bush people were really living in. His narrative style and characterisation techniques enabled readers, to clearly visualise places and people.
The atmosphere in ‘The Drovers Wife’ is partially responsible for the isolation and separation the drover’s wife is suffering. As her
Good morning HSC standard English students, it is a honor to be invited to speak to you about some texts you have been studying for your upcoming higher school certificate exam. Distinctively visual texts portray powerful messages through the clever use of language features in order to create visual imagery in our minds.
Now let's begin.. I ask you all to close your eyes and think of a time you have experienced adversity...
Henry Lawson, Edward Hopper and Julie O’Callaghan’s have successfully depicted how adversity is dealt with through their works. Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s wife’ and Edward Hopper’s (painting) and Julie O’Callaghan’s (poet) ‘Automat’ (1972) display distinctively visual images of both suburban and rural women suffering the challenge of isolation and loneliness and escape from reality. Similarly, Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Loaded Dog’ explores the concept of adversity but depicts interconnection and mateship as a means of dealing with a difficult situation. The powerful images expressed in all three works not only function to create meaning but also challenge the viewers understanding of themselves and the world they interact in. Through the use of language techniques and imagery we begin to recognize these themes of isolation, wanting to escape from reality and mateship.
Now if many of you still don’t know much about Lawson’s writing, here is a brief summary you should know. Lawson was writing in the later stages of the 19th century, a period when Australians were developing pride in their own country. Most of Lawson’s stories are about the bush. He wrote them so suburban people would know the lifestyle bush people were really living in. His narrative style and characterisation techniques enabled readers, to clearly visualise places and people.
The atmosphere in ‘The Drovers Wife’ is partially responsible for the isolation and separation the drover’s wife is suffering. As her