visual connects an image with an idea. To illustrate the effectiveness of the distinctively visual in emphasising the ways that individuals respond to significant aspects of life‚ two uniquely Australian texts stand alone; the prescribed text The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto written in 1996 and the epic 2008 film Australia by Baz Luhramm. Both texts deal with aspects of war and the importance of truth. Each text‚ whether it be a dramatised stage play or a film script‚ has a composer who has the capacity
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Shoe-Horn Sonata Compare the ways the distinctively visual is created in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and in ONE other related text of your own choosing. John Misto’s play “The Shoe-Horn Sonata” is a text that was written to acknowledge and honour the women who were once forgotten prisoners of war in World War 2. The play uses distinctively visual images and dialogue to create visual images of dehumanisation and the small idea of hope during this time. “Schindlers list” directed by Steven Spielberg also
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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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The scene that my group chose was scene 2 of act 2. We chose this scene as we thought it was a major part in the play due to the amount of action in the scene as the group escapes a soldier gets drugged and dies which probably makes it the most entertaining scene in the entire play. Because it is a play it needs to entertain its viewers‚ as that is the purpose of any performance to make the viewers enjoy what they are watching/listening to. To do this the performers must get into character this
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I also discovered that if they had an even number of numerals in the sequence‚ but they repeated a number then it would end. All spiralaterals with an odd number of numerals will end where the started and continue to cycle around. If a spiralateral repeats a number then it must end; this applies to all sequences whether they be odd or even. This must be true because the repeated number turn the spiralateral back towards the pattern. In the spiralaterals that never end the
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Compare in which ways distinctively visual images are created in The Shoe Horn Sonata and one related text Distinctively visual images can communicate important ideas to responders‚ allowing them to understand the perspective of the composer and the purpose of the text. In the “Shoe Horn Sonata” John Misto creates a play that surrounds two Prisoners of Wars (POW’s) characters who are forced to relive the memories of the past through an interview for a TV documentary. Through a variety of dramatic
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were called prisoners of war or POWs for short. Countries‚ such as Germany and Japan‚ did not follow the set laws‚ enacted by the Geneva Convention‚ that were made to protect
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music. John Misto the composer of Shoe-Horn Sonata demonstrates the effects of post-traumatic stress‚ survival and friendship throughout the play with the use of film and dramatic techniques. Misto illustrates the viciousness of the Japanese to highlight the strength and resilience of the women. These women had been captured by the Japanese during WW11 and were taken into hostage‚ they remained in camps‚ where they had been brutalised. In Shoe Horn Sonata‚ John Misto highlights the horrific
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1. Describe the various experience of the women in the POW camp. A) The women in the POW camps were treated very harshly‚ there are many instances that support this statement. One is that the women were given inhumane living quarters where food is scarce. These women were forced to bear extreme punishments such as kneeling for hours in the hot sun‚ or falling over onto sharp spikes. These women were not supplied with proper sanitation. There were also extreme cases of punishment used on minor offences
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three numbers. So I made spiralaterals for 1-2-3‚ 1-3-2‚ 2-1-3‚ 2-3-1‚ 3-2-1 and 3-1-2 and saw what it did. Also I threw in some random number combinations just to see what it would do and because I was bored with doing them in order. While doing this POW and
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