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Henry Lawson: The Loaded Dog: Distinctively Visual
Henry Lawson: The Loaded Dog: Distinctively Visual
Loaded Dog
Distinctively Visual
Distinctively Visual
As part of this study you will be asked
to explore the ways the images we see
and/or visualise in texts are created.
You will consider how literary form
and structure and the language used in
different texts create these images, affect
interpretation and shape meaning.
Distinctively Visual
The scenes created by Lawson allow the
reader to appreciate a place they have
never seen. He draws on personal
experience to depict a bush lifestyle that is
fast disappearing.
Distinctively Visual:
elements conveyed
through …
The Australian
Gold Rush
Living in the Bush
The bush setting is simple
and harsh. The men live in a
campsite not far from the
“claim”. The weather is hot
and unrelenting, “They had
a cat that died in hot
weather” … their only relief
from the weather comes
from a nearby creek nothing
more that “a chain of
muddy water-holes”
Life in the Goldfields
The Loaded Dog opens with a
detailed and realistic
description of people and
place in the goldfields "There is
always a rich reef supposed to
exist in the vicinity” … "They'd
make a … cartridge of
blasting-powder” … "The result
was usually an ugly pot-hole in
the bottom of the shaft and
half a barrow-load of broken
rock"
Australian Larrikinism
A larrikin is considered to be
"a mischievous young
person, or "a person who
acts with apparent
disregard for social or
political conventions” It has
been said that Australia’s
larrikinism may have arisen in
reaction to corrupt, arbitrary
authority during Australia's
days as a penal colony.
Literary Form
Form
Andy Page
Jim Bently
Tommy
Alliteration
Simile
Emotive language
Em Dash
Imagery
Sentence Structure
Australian Idiom
Direct Speech