The Shoe Horn Sonata By John Misto The scene from The Shoe Horn Sonata I chose was act 1‚ scene 1. The Play begins on a dark silent set‚ which evokes in the audience the darkness and pain of the characters memories as well as suggesting their stores have been hidden for too long. Out of the darkness with come truth. The play in scene 1 begins with an army nurse that is being interviewed for a documentary program about her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese. Misto cleverly
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Images elicit certain emotions within individuals though it is skewered through their interpretation of distinctively visuals. This is a notion greatly emphasised within the play “The Shoe Horn Sonata” composed by John Misto in order to bring forth concepts of truth and the atrocities of war. Misto does this through his manipulation of techniques to put focus on the experiences suffered by women during the periods of war to give us a better understanding of the event. Comparably the composer Kenneth
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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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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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3.5 Heel horn erosions Heel horn erosion is seen as a change in the form of the exterior of the bulb of the heel (Greenough 2016). Heel horn erosion is not always the cause of lameness‚ with the true incidence being unknown (Greenough 2016). However‚ it is suggested that if dairy cows are exposed to copious slurry‚ the incidence of heel erosion quickly reaches 100%. In some dairy cows‚ heel horn erosion advances to a point at which complications develop and lameness may be apparent (Greenough 2016)
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"The Fog Horn" Summary In the story‚ "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury‚ out in the cold water‚ far from land‚ there was a lighthouse. The plot follows Johnny‚ the protagonist and narrator‚ and his boss‚ McDunn who are putting in a night’s work at a remote lighthouse. The lighthouse’s resonating fog horn attracts a sea monster that lives in the deep part of the ocean. The sea monster ends up destroying the place. This was actually the third time the monster had visited
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The play the “Shoe-Horn Sonata” written by John Misto and poem “Vergissmeinicht” composed by a British Tank Commander Keith Douglas use the distinctively visual to portray the idea of war and its consequences on people and their relationships. The use of lighting in the play and the poem help give the audience an idea of the mood that the protagonists are in‚ for example in the play The Shoe-Horn Sonata the use of dim light whilst on stage is used to great effect whenever Sheila or Bridie are
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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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POW 9: Around the Horn Problem Statement During the time of crossing the overland trail‚ many people instead chose to take the ship route which went around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. The points that we are given to keep in mind are: -A ship leaves New York for San Francisco on the first of every month at noon‚ and vice versa for a ship coming from San Francisco. -Each ship arrives exactly six months after it leaves. With these things‚ we are also going to assume that:
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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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