The short story Aquifer, by one of Australian’s well-known novelist and short story writer, Tim Winton, is typically a story about a man’s reminiscence with his plausible flashbacks from his dreadful past that leads to his present. With the short story Aquifer, you are immediately immersed in Australia: the surroundings, its people, the sound:(p.40)”beyond the fence cicidas, birds whirred,”. It is an Australia imagined, wild and rambling, but also in a normal detailed place on a map: revolving around Western Perth, Australia:-(p.49-50)”The brown land, I figured wasn’t just as wide but deep too, “out west here, when the easterly blows”, from the 1960s: ( p.38) “The battler’s block in the early sixties”. Winton has successfully used characterisation, setting, storyline and he has carefully narrated it from his narrator’s perspective. This essay would demonstrate how Winton has been successful in creating a coherent fictional world and how he used his settings to demonstrate his narrator’s point of view from the story Aquifer.
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As an adult, he comes back to the swamp only to find out that it is dehydrated, with bones surfacing in
As an adult, he comes back to the swamp only to find out that it is dehydrated, with bones surfacing in