Weapons Training And Homecoming Analysis

Most figures of speech cast up a picture in your mind. These pictures created or suggested by the writer is called 'imagery'. To fully understand the world of imagery, we must also understand how the writer uses it to convey more than what is actually being said or literally meant. This is represented in a variety of texts that we will take a closer look at such as John Steinbeck’s Of Mice & Men and the two poems Weapons Training and Homecoming by poet Bruce Dawe.

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is the story of George and Lennie, two migrant travelers in pursuit of their vision of owning a farm. However Lennie is mentally challenged and by accident kills the wife of the man they are working for leading to the death of Lennie and therefore