In the openings of pages 9 and 10 of ‘The Rabbits’‚ written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan‚ techniques such as colour symbolism‚ font and salience and reading path are used to create issues involving the mistreatment of the Aborignal people after the ‘Invasion”. Colour symbolism is used in many different ways in this opening to emphasise how the Aboriginal are being treated by the European settlers. The colour of the rabbits’ clothing shows us their superiority to the Aboriginal
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“The best novels stand the test of time‚ providing the reader with an interesting story as well as conveying important themes and ideas” In John Marsden’s sequel to “Tomorrow When the War Began”‚ set in rural modern day Australia‚ comes his second novel of seven “The Dead of the Night”. John Marsden’s “TDOTN” has stood the test of time‚ by providing the readers with an interesting story as well as conveying important themes and ideas. The themes and ideas of “Death and Destruction”‚ “Relationships
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of the European overriding the Aboriginals since they have declared Australia as their own because the white pavement shows the Australians as they are white. To add to this the modest red flags in the opening underscore Europeans colonisation to a much higher extent. The colour representation further enhances the audience to witness the European
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The novel that I have chosen is Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden. This is the first novel out of the seven part series and it was first written in the year 1993 to 1999 (with the sequel). This novel has had worldwide sales of about 2.5 million copies‚ which was written in a comparatively kind era. From the summaries on the websites‚ Tomorrow When The War Began tells a story of a young group of rebels that have been separated from their families‚ and are forced to fight in an invasion of
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Tomorrow when the war began- John Marsden Novel essay. “Tomorrow When The War Began” by John Marsden‚ is a novel of survival‚ friendship‚ love and war. He uses many language techniques (e.g. simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ oxymoron‚ irony‚ symbol‚ allusion etc.) to get across to the reader the importance of each of the themes discussed. He also uses these techniques to set the mood in each chapter and to help emphasise each major point in the novel. “We’ve learnt a lot and had to figure
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“The Rabbits” is a picture book written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan. With the use of visual and language techniques Marsden and Tan depict and help develop our understanding about wider issues within the community. Marsden and Tan skilfully display more sophisticated issues that are not so commonly aimed at children such as conflict‚ industrialisation and loss of culture which are all an adverse effect of colonisation. “The Rabbits” is an allegory that represents the destructive
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In the story "So Much Water So Close To Home" a young girl is raped‚ killed and found in a river where four men are fishing. What makes this story interesting is that after discovering the body they did not report it until after they left‚ three days later. When one of the men who discovered her‚ the husband of the narrator‚ Stuart returns home he doesn’t tell his wife about the incident until the following morning. Because of this‚ Claire believes that all men are responsible for the murder of
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So Much Media‚ So little News The Elusive Big Idea So little comments So little attention So much information‚ so little Idea The disease of new media has greatly shrink human minds that rub off on more and more people in this technology-accelerating world at present. Daily life nowadays has significant changed compare to ten years ago that office workers used to waiting for subway by reading a daily newspaper‚ housewives seating at balcony and reading a newspaper in the morning. But now
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In Raymond Carver?s short story So Much Water So Close To Home it begins with Claire the narrator‚ describing her husband the main character of the story Stuart Kane. Claire is a very eloquent speaker and usually can?t agree with Stuart so she keeps to herself. Stuart and three of his friends Gordon Johnson‚ Mel Dorn‚ and Vern Williams had planned a fishing trip to the Naches River just like they usually do every spring. How ever the events that would happen on this trip would affect Stuart?s and
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Draft Imagine words are currents in the sea and you are a boat. This is what it is like to read the novel‚ ‘Tomorrow when the war began’. The words send you adrift into another world‚ with such suspense‚ sadness and exhilarating action‚ John Marsden has created a masterpiece. John Marsden’s novel ‘Tomorrow when the war began’ is a must read book. It takes the reader on a shocking and exhilarating journey through the invasion of Wirrawee‚ a small coastal town in New South Wales‚ Australia‚ where
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