The award winning Australian author, Tim Winton’s recent collection of seventeen short stories ‘The Turning’ provides a perceptive and pleasurable reading experience, compressed within one novel. These overlapping and linking stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives as stunning portraits of a small coastal community. Winton utilises varieties of language and formal techniques such as, theme, character and setting, to effectively engage and discover the central characters of ‘The Turning’. Winton’s use of different language techniques, and distinctive texts, engage the audience to the messages of his short stories. The three stories that connected effectively to the audience via character development were, Big World, Damaged goods and Small mercies.
In ‘Big World’ Winton establishes two main characters to attract the audience to connect to the emotions that the characters are feeling. The protagonist and Biggie are …show more content…
Vic, the protagonist in this story, was a boy who had a hopeless love for a girl named Alison. His love for Alison starts in high school and carries on through adulthood. ‘During his school years, Vic maintained a kind of adoring surveillance of alison, though he made sure he only followed her brazenly once a week. More than this, he knew he would be a creep’. This shows that he accepted Alison and rejected societal values. He was attracted to Alison not only because of her ‘thick long’ blonde hair or her eyes that was ‘bluer than seemed possible’ (p.g 57) but also because of her large birthmark that took up nearly half of her face. It was the feature that sparked Vic infatuation. He viewed it as ‘the root of his obsession’ (p.g 58) and stated that he ‘loves Alison because of her mark’ (p.g 58). Over the course of the
In ‘Big World’ Winton establishes two main characters to attract the audience to connect to the emotions that the characters are feeling. The protagonist and Biggie are …show more content…
Vic, the protagonist in this story, was a boy who had a hopeless love for a girl named Alison. His love for Alison starts in high school and carries on through adulthood. ‘During his school years, Vic maintained a kind of adoring surveillance of alison, though he made sure he only followed her brazenly once a week. More than this, he knew he would be a creep’. This shows that he accepted Alison and rejected societal values. He was attracted to Alison not only because of her ‘thick long’ blonde hair or her eyes that was ‘bluer than seemed possible’ (p.g 57) but also because of her large birthmark that took up nearly half of her face. It was the feature that sparked Vic infatuation. He viewed it as ‘the root of his obsession’ (p.g 58) and stated that he ‘loves Alison because of her mark’ (p.g 58). Over the course of the