What Is Henry Lawson's Description Of The Australian Outback

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In Henry Lawson texts he’s descriptions, enables us to create an image of the Australian outback and the harsh sufferings that people experienced.
The two stories that i chose are in a dry season and the drover’s wife. I chose those two stories because they have two very similar scenes which are the description of the Australian outback. Lawson’s descriptions of the Australian outback enable us to imagine how Australia looked like back then. In my visual representation it shows the harsh outback and how the Australian bushes are very dangerous, very dry and inhabitable. Today i will be explaining how my visual representation reflects Henry Lawson’s depiction of the significant experience chosen from the drover’s wife and in a dry season.
In the drover’s wife, Henry Lawson description of the Australian outback enables us to create an image in our minds of the bush and also he enables us to feel empathy for the drover’s wife and the sufferings she went through with her children killing the snake. In the second text, In a dry season also by Henry Lawson the description of the Harsh Australian outback and its people allows the reader to appreciate and imagine a place they have never seen. He draws on personal experience to depict a bush lifestyle that is fast disappearing. For example Bush all around – bush with no horizon, for the country is flat.
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The surrounding landscape as described by Lawson provides the reader with a visual image of the Australian Bush;
In the second text in a dry season Lawson conveys a feeling of empathy as the reader comes to understand that these towns are all very similar. A sense of desolation and despair about life in the bush is developed. For example "Somebody told me that the country was very dry on the other side of Nevertire. The least horrible spot in the bush, in a dry season, is where the bush isn’t — where it has been cleared away and a green crop is trying to

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