Shoe Horn Sonata Analysis

The relationship between both texts the shoe-horn sonata and home and away both share a similar distinctive visual features and the composers both have a purpose they are trying to distinguish. Both texts show how the characters endure war, symbolism is played as a main role in both these texts. It explores events associated with prisoners of war. Throughout the texts they show visual and language techniques.
John Misto’s play and home and away both share a relationship when it comes to symbolisms. In shs the Shoe Horn is an important symbol in the play, this object represents larger ideas than it may seem, its symbolic meaning evolves through out the span of the play, it is a symbolism of friendship, family and love. It first appears is when they are in the sea and it represents the meaning to live by ‘tapping’ Sheila to keep her awake and afloat. Sheila gives the shoe horn up to the Japs to obtain quinine when Bridie is almost dying from a fever, the shoe horn plays the most important part in the play as it help with survival and built friendship. The shoe horn comes to represent the enduring nature of the women’s friendship and love. In home and away colors and drawings are main symbolisms through the book, at the start of the book meaning in conveyed through the use of colors. The use of blues and purples conveys a notion of calmness and peace …show more content…
In home and away it is based on event that happened during the war, yes the book is functional but these things also did happen when the war was in action. Social realism maximizes is emphasized by the use of songs from the wartime period, photographs projected onto the back wall of the stage and voice-over and other sound effects and same as the home and away there are related pictures used to convey social