Use of Setting and Description in Johnno Throughout Johnno descriptions of settings relating to houses and buildings enable the reader to obtain an insight into the character of Dante. Malouf captures images with powerful force, creating depth to the characters. Specific details that may be deemed inappropriate are enhanced to provide meaning and show how characters respond and feel toward places. Malouf effectively uses images to reinforce attitudes, feelings and emotions. Though the descriptions
There is a passage in David Malouf's Johnno where the adolescent narrator muses upon the very full address which he, like Stephen Dedalus1 and schoolchildren all over the world, has written on the fly-leaf of his exercise books: ‘Arran Avenue, Hamilton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the World’. Queensland is ‘a joke’ and about Australia he asks, Why Australia? What is Australia anyway1? The continent itself is clear enough, burned into my mind on long hot afternoons in the Third Grade when I learned
friendship and teamwork in a survival scenario where Johnno, the protagonist, is shipwrecked on a supposedly uninhabited island with his younger brother Matt, childhood best friend Nick, and his cousin Georgina. Steve Johnston elegantly brings the relationships formed by these characters to the test through life threatening situations that challenge the characters both mentally and physically whilst unravelling the pre-existing tension between Johnno and Nick. Steve Johnston describes the relationship
The western style 2013 Australian feature film Mystery Road centres around indigenous detective Jay Swan as he investigates the murder of indigenous teenager Julie Mason. Swan’s continued struggles to convince the rest of the local police – who all happen to be white males – to help him to solve the case lead him to find a drug ring. Sen represents the idea that indigenous people do not receive justice through the construction of Jay Swan and the unjust way the rest of the Indigenous community are
“Johnno” the new mate in town, is a Canadian who has just moved over and for his first job, driving the local miner’s bus to and from work every day. The mateship between Johnno and the other workers begins to express over time. But they never treat Johnno with disrespect, they’re not rude, not mean, they show mateship. Mateship is an important part of Australians history. When
The film Kokoda, directed by Alistair Grierson, portrays a fairly accurate representation of the hardships and battles fought in Kokoda in 1942. This is shown through its alikeness between the terrain, conditions, disease, mateship and courage. The budget and plot of the film do limit the capability to show some important details such as the Australian’s khaki uniforms and the intentions of the Japanese. Grierson’s portrayal of the terrain and conditions of Kokoda is a great depiction of what
Characters in both The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Puberty Blues act as gender stereotypes, but sometimes they do not match to the gender stereotypes. In The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a female character, Olive, shows women stereotypes, such as being emotional, childishness, and waiting for a man who she loves. On the other hand, a man character, Roo, represents manhood, for instance, being a cane-cutter and Lawler shows Roo fighting with Barney (72-75). In Puberty Blues, stereotypes
The long and the short and the tall In 1942, a small British platoon was positioned in the jungle trying to assess the strength of the Japanese invasion. They were 20 miles away from the British frontlines and 15 miles away from base camp. They rest for a while in a deserted hut. Their radio has a flat battery and they are having trouble getting in touch with their base camp. The platoon is led by Sergeant Mitchem, who is in control of 6 ordinary men; hence the title from Britain; Bamforth;