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-Tim Winton
The historical and social context
of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet enables the reader to have a deferent understanding
of the action and themes throughout the text. Cloudstreet is set between the
events of World War II to the mid 1960's. This is made clearly event when Rose
pickles states " Yeah something terrible is up. Not the war." The
context of the text affects the characters actions throughout the novel.
Cloudstreet is set in Subiaco Western Australia. This is the main setting that
allows the two separate dysfunctional families, The Lambs The Pickles to unite
and start a new life at Number One Cloudstreet. The reader acknowledges the
Pickles down by the ocean in Geralton where they then move to Perth. The only
historical character to make an appearance in the text is the Nedlands
Monsters, Eric Cooke a serial killer who happened to be the last man to be
hanged in WA on October the 26th. The Nedlands monster features in Cloudstreet
because he threatens ordinary peoples lives. Tim Winton constructs the Nedlands
monster as a threat to peaces and people's lives. His character is established
as dreadful person that society is afraid of. 1. Oriel Lamb doesn't believe in
the sentence of The Nedlands monster as she has a biblical context and believes
that everyone should be given a fair chance. 2 The world events influence the
Pickles and Lamb Families. Dolly Pickles character is constructed as
selfishness character as she takes advantage of the Catalina Pilot. 3 Tim
Winton text Cloudstreet explores many different social issues the 20 years
spanning throughout the text. Class differences are explored throughout the
text. Toby's is an upper class character and his relationship with Rose doesn't
work out due to the differences in social class throughout both of the characters.
Aboriginal History, is mentioned throughout the text. Tim Winton uses the
"Black Man Character" to explore many cultural and racial differences
which have occurred...
The most direct way in which an
author reinforces the themes of a novel is through the use of literary devices.
In Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, one of the most prominent of these devices is
symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's
audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the
novel. Indeed, Cloudstreet itself, the river and religious symbolism contribute
to meaning and the author's endorsement of love, family, determination, and
spirituality in the search for completeness.
The house Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic in Tim Winton's novel. It is the place where as the blurb suggests "for twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until that roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts." Indeed, each aspect of the house develops its own personified characteristics from the fence "patched together from old signs" and the Lambs' rooms "like an old stroke survivor paralyzed down one side". However, the library is the most significant room in symbolizing the author's values and attitudes.
The library, situated in ‘no-man's-land', is the darkest and most foreboding area of the house where Fish Lamb converses with ghosts of the ‘evil' previous owner and an Aboriginal girl who died of self-administered poisoning. Early in the novel, the reader is taken "back in time" and introduced to the library with imagery such as
"The room soaked her up and the summer heat worked on her body until its surface was as hard and dry as the crust of a pavlova."
The house Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic in Tim Winton's novel. It is the place where as the blurb suggests "for twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until that roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts." Indeed, each aspect of the house develops its own personified characteristics from the fence "patched together from old signs" and the Lambs' rooms "like an old stroke survivor paralyzed down one side". However, the library is the most significant room in symbolizing the author's values and attitudes.
The library, situated in ‘no-man's-land', is the darkest and most foreboding area of the house where Fish Lamb converses with ghosts of the ‘evil' previous owner and an Aboriginal girl who died of self-administered poisoning. Early in the novel, the reader is taken "back in time" and introduced to the library with imagery such as
"The room soaked her up and the summer heat worked on her body until its surface was as hard and dry as the crust of a pavlova."
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