ipl-logo

Extract Of Maestro By Peter Goldsworthy

806 Words4 Pages

In the extract from “Maestro” by Peter Goldsworthy, the author discusses the protagonist, Paul, and how he and his family moved from the South to Darwin. They stay in a motel room the first night and the next day they visit their new house. It shows the relationship between the family and their environment, expressing their feelings about the situation. In the prose extract, the author illustrates a rough atmosphere which the protagonist immediately loves, unlike his family, in order to create characterisation through the family’s first impression of the new town. The text conveys Nancy as a strong-willed person by her initial rejection of her new circumstances and then she improves them by quickly moving forward with the situation, showing …show more content…

“I loved the town of booze and blow at first sight” conveys Pauls immediate connection with this new town using alliteration with the two ‘b’ sounds to emphasise the words. It shows how he feels comfortable in this new location. The use of “booze and blow” is a colloquialism that means alcohol and drugs, this describes the people in the town as unhealthy with behaviour problems. Goldsworthy uses bildungsroman through Pauls love of the town, despite the alcohol and drugs, this shows a ‘false view’ to the situation and the theme of ‘ignorance to knowledge’ because this isn’t the best town. The first part of text contrasts with the following section which talks about “the brilliant furnace of the rising sun” using a metaphor to symbolize the sun and created clear imagery. This shows Pauls progression of thoughts. “Furnace” is significant and gives the image of intense heat to describe the atmosphere. “From time to time a cube would descend from directly above: not so much rain as a solid mass of water.” This is visual imagery of the rain and the purpose is to show a change of mood, progress and atmosphere to slow the events down and introduce a new day. In this section of the extract, Goldsworthy uses descriptive language to develop characterisation and …show more content…

The metaphor “bare shoebox” creates visual imagery of a sparse room, with little inside. “Wet shrubbery” creates a natural atmosphere of the environment around the house. He says that the house is elevated on “thin stork-stilts”, this uses sibilance to catch the reader’s attention. It also uses visual imagery to show Paul’s perspective. In the text there is repetition of the phrase “This is it.” spoken by Paul’s father, John, in response to “Is this it? My mother tried to disbelieve.” This phrase is repeated, a short and sharp message to show finality. Nancy, the mother is doubtful and denies the current situation. “Perhaps the key won’t fit, she hoped.” Through the use of dialogue, the author shows how Nancy is doubtful and unhappy about the situation. The descriptions of the house show the family react to it, developing their character in the beginning of the

Show More
Related

  • Douglas Coupland's Player One

    750 Words  | 3 Pages

    “The carpet near Bertis’s foot resembles a run-over squirrel, but Karen’s seen worse.” (Coupland 138) The imagery in this novel keeps the reader engaged by prompting their own imagination to visual the setting. Without the author’s skillful choice of words the imagery in this novel would have greatly

    Read More

  • The Sewing Woman In Jane Anne Phillips '' Cheers'

    461 Words  | 2 Pages

    According to researchers at the University of Scranton, 92 percent of people never achieve the goals they set for New Year’s. This constant cycle of being unable to accomplish one’s desires is very prominent in this passage by Jayne Anne Phillips. In her writing, Phillips demonstrates her belief that the actuality of the world is much bleaker than what an individual fantasizes. In “Cheers”, writer Jayne Anne Phillips portrays the sewing woman as having a disheveled physical appearance, and the house as filthy and malodorous, to ultimately reveal how life rarely turns out as planned.

    Read More

  • Jacob Lawrence's This Is A Family Living In Harlem

    506 Words  | 3 Pages

    The family shows signs of being part of either a low or poor class based off the conditions of the household they are living in and the bareness of their apartment. For instance, the dining room is extremely small and the kitchen seems old and worn out. Correspondingly, the family members seem to lack personality due to to the simple clothing they are wearing. However, the bright colors found interior of the home create a contrast between the dreary environment of the household. This helps convey the message that although the family may not be as economically stable and live a dull life, they still happily interact among one another and come together every evening to have a meal together.

    Read More

  • Ninos By Heilman Analysis

    733 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Ninos” is a stimulating chapter in Robert Leo Heilman’s autobiography, Overstory: Zero, and is true to its name. In “Ninos”, Robert Heilman discusses his encounters with children when he volunteers to tell stories to four and five year olds. Throughout the essay, Heilman creates a protective tone when talking about the children he volunteers with, he expresses his need to shield the children from the harsh parts of life, a feeling that carries on from the author to the reader. The author uses a persona full of loving interest to make his readers feel happy and curious when he interacts with the children. From the beginning to the end of the chapter, Heilman paints a beautiful picture in the audience’s mind.

    Read More

  • Essay On The Rocking Horse Winner

    995 Words  | 4 Pages

    According to Freud’s unconscious theory, our repressed need, socially-unacceptable thoughts, and distressing and truncated feelings exist in our unconscious, and it is the unconscious that resolved and explains one’s lifestyle or even one’s personality. The house is represented as Paul’s unconscious recalling him of his mental agony and pain; of “luck” he should bring to his mother to seek her attention. In this way, this message exposed Paul’s oedipal-rooted sexual stimuli to satisfy what he desires for without knowing him what precisely it is, and this is mainly the cause of his invisible suffering throughout the story which could embodied in his big blue eyes blazing with a sort of madness. Plus, the tone of the some words he uses unconsciously such as “filthy lucre” when he is talking with his mother could further reinforce our conjecture of him entanglement with Oedipus complex.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Drifters Poem By Bruce Dawe

    1526 Words  | 7 Pages

    Title? Belonging is the pivotal axis around which human life revolves. Genuine poetry reflects directly or indirectly an awareness of the social problems of a country. Belonging and poetry, Miss Lawlor and my fellow students is one of the most curious combinations and this is what we see in the genre of poetry produced by the Australian poets in the 1960’s when……... Bruce Dawe was a vernacular poet known for his extraordinary empathy with people which characterises his poetry and gives a voice to the ordinary Australians.

    Read More

  • Comparing Gwen Harwood's Suburban Sonnet And Burning Sappho

    1125 Words  | 5 Pages

    Gwen Harwood to a large extend, takes marginalised groups such as women, and privileges their experiences by giving them a voice through poetry. Both ‘Suburban Sonnet’ and ‘Burning Sappho’ express the frustrations of women who feel tapped by motherhood and the expectation that they will conform to domestic roles. Harwood comments on the inability of women to pursue personal happiness as she shows that motherhood can be both rewarding and all consuming. Meaning is therefore drawn from each poem through Harwood's intricate use of stylistic features such as figurative language and imagery, shaping readers to understand that it is often those we love that cause the most intense feelings of resentment and internal frustration.

    Read More

  • Imagery In Marigolds

    251 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier there is a lot of imagery and diction. The imagery was mainly focused on how the town looks and the contrast between the town and Miss Lottie’s house. In the text is states how that the only beautiful part of the house is the marigolds, “Miss Lottie's marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard”(Collier 23). This quote is trying to say that her house was a very old house that no one really cared for but, the marigolds were always taken care of and that was the only beauty in the whole yard.

    Read More

  • Patriarchy In Doctor Gordon's The Bell Jar

    1718 Words  | 7 Pages

    Both characters experience treatment that parallels the oppression they are faced by society. In ‘The Bell Jar’, Doctor Gordon, represents the universal presence of patriarchy in society, where men are completely dominant and women’s voices are silenced. He is an influence on Esther’s psyche and displays the same lack of empathy as John, when seeing Esther and her failure to make any progress. Esther’s desperate alternatives are either shock therapy or suicide. The shock therapy is seen to be inhumane as Esther experiences it at the private hospital.

    Read More

  • Gothic Fiction In 'Where Is Here '?'

    745 Words  | 3 Pages

    Author Joyce Carol Oates ' discovery of the stories of Edgar Allen Poe and Ann Radcliff “sparked her interest in Gothic fiction”. These Gothic elements typically include gruesome or violent incidents, characters in psychological or physical torment, and strong language full of dangerous meanings. Oates herself is citied as saying that "Horror is a fact of life. As a writer, I’m fascinated by all facets of life". “Where is Here?" This story is sort of eerie and tells the tale of a grown-up man who goes back to visit his childhood home.

    Read More

  • Rita Dove Daystar

    1814 Words  | 8 Pages

    In Rita Dove’s “Daystar”, there are several phrases and words that lead the reader of the poem to a profound understanding of the struggles that the main character of this poem experiences. According to the context of the poem, the main character appears to be a mother and wife in distress. Throughout the poem, she is presented as having a dreary, lethargic, and disconnected outlook of her current situation. The main question that must be asked is what the narrator tried to convey by stating that “she was nothing, pure nothing, in the middle of the day” (21-22). There are many possible answers strung across the poem that suggest why this mother describes her state of being in this way, such as the words that were being used to express how

    Read More

  • Billy Collins Schoolsville Analysis

    742 Words  | 3 Pages

    He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Gothic Elements In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

    1669 Words  | 7 Pages

    Additionally , the house that the narrator mentions is illustrated as “ mansion of gloom “ which might be a sign that the aura of the house has something dreadful in it. However , the Narrator reveals something important about his first impression for the house by saying “ I looked upon the scene before me , upon the mere house, upon the bleak walls , upon the vacant eye-like windows ( 3 ).To illustrate , the words such as “ air of heaven , silent tarn , mystic vapor “ used as a reinforcement for making the ambience of the house as gloomy. In fact , in the light of these facts , it could be said that the house has an darkness appearance which might be an indication of its mysterious atmosphere.

    Read More

  • Literary Techniques Used In Philip Larkin's Essay 'Here'

    601 Words  | 3 Pages

    In his essay “Here,” Philip Larkin uses many literary devices to convey the speaker’s attitude toward the places he describes. Larkin utilizes imagery and strong diction to depict these feelings of both a large city and the isolated beach surrounding it. In the beginning of the passage, the speaker describes a large town that he passes through while on a train. The people in the town intrigue him, but he is not impressed by the inner-city life.

    Read More

  • Literary Analysis: A Hymn To Childhood

    969 Words  | 4 Pages

    He descriptively tells the readers he grew up in a state of chaos due to war and that he did not have a peaceful childhood compared to normal kids. While he was afraid of the soldiers who are “strolling the streets and alleys” (line 8), the untroubled child in him was afraid of the “boarded-up well in the backyard” (line 4). Here, he contrasts the idea of home and foreign place by presenting different experiences that a child faced. He is showing an event that caused him to have fragmented self. He hints the readers lack of personal belonging because he has experienced war in his early youth.

    Read More

More about Extract Of Maestro By Peter Goldsworthy

Open Document