This text response will be analysing and evaluating two of Tim Winton’s stories from his book “The Turning”. Big World and Damaged Goods are two of many short stories that Winton has written. After choosing these two short stories because, in both, there is a common dull and melancholy longing theme of an individual. This main theme in each story have been carried out in Winton’s stories.
The theme in each of these two stories is relevant to a young audience by writing about characters that go through every day human life of a young person in school and also just out of school. Big World is about two main characters that have just finished school and exams and are now working together that sorts with fresh cut up meats. During this time of …show more content…
The main character in Big World is a young man that has finished school but is unsatisfied with life and the world because of how it’s going after finishing high school and failing exams. A feeling of content and dissatisfaction with how things in life are going is carried out for the main character in Damaged Goods, narrated and written in the eyes of a present wife of her husband and telling the audience about his remembrance of a past relationship story with a girl he claimed and testified to have really loved her, “testify to his love for her” (pg. 62). The author invites the audience to consider what it feels like to be in the main characters shoes, by taking us in deep to internal feelings of the main characters. Winton also takes us through a few series of flashbacks in each story about the adolescent years of the characters. In this, there’s is a similar plot in taking the audience back in time to explain the beginning and building of friendships/relationships. In Big World, Winton writes about the beginning high school days and how the main character and his friend, Biggie, become friends through the beating up of a school bully by Biggie. Similarly, in Damaged Goods, the years in high school and meeting a unique girl with a birthmark
The theme in each of these two stories is relevant to a young audience by writing about characters that go through every day human life of a young person in school and also just out of school. Big World is about two main characters that have just finished school and exams and are now working together that sorts with fresh cut up meats. During this time of …show more content…
The main character in Big World is a young man that has finished school but is unsatisfied with life and the world because of how it’s going after finishing high school and failing exams. A feeling of content and dissatisfaction with how things in life are going is carried out for the main character in Damaged Goods, narrated and written in the eyes of a present wife of her husband and telling the audience about his remembrance of a past relationship story with a girl he claimed and testified to have really loved her, “testify to his love for her” (pg. 62). The author invites the audience to consider what it feels like to be in the main characters shoes, by taking us in deep to internal feelings of the main characters. Winton also takes us through a few series of flashbacks in each story about the adolescent years of the characters. In this, there’s is a similar plot in taking the audience back in time to explain the beginning and building of friendships/relationships. In Big World, Winton writes about the beginning high school days and how the main character and his friend, Biggie, become friends through the beating up of a school bully by Biggie. Similarly, in Damaged Goods, the years in high school and meeting a unique girl with a birthmark