Fly Away Peter

How does Malouf use contrasts to present the main ideas in his text, Fly Away Peter? ‘Fly Away Peter’, written by David Malouf, is a text based around Jim Saddler, the novel’s main protagonist. Malouf explores his experiences with life in Australia and the first world war that follows. The author revolves the text around events such as the meeting of new friends, war and death. He presents many contrasting themes that connect with central ideas, highlighting characterisation, change of setting and symbolism. There is clear emphasis on the use of contrast and it is a common literary device used throughout. The contrast of setting made between the Australian swamplands and the European battlefields present ideas of Jim’s journey, his innocence…

The Traditional Australian National Discourse The traditional Australian national discourse has the feature of masculinity which has been explored and challenged in the texts, Fly Away Peter (1999), An Elegant Young Man (2014) and The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994). These texts will be examined to discover the devices they use to present a counter-discourse and what commentary they have on the discourse. The feature of masculinity is a strong part of the Australian…

How does David Malouf use imagery to convey the central themes and ideas of his novel, Fly Away Peter? Innocence. Migration. Transformation. War. All of these are the central ideas and themes are encased in the pages of Malouf’s novel, Fly Away Peter. The author conveys these intricate and profound themes using a multitude of techniques, such as structure, style, atmosphere, and tone. However, one of the predominant methods is imagery. Imagery is a vast and multi-faceted aspect of literature.…

Both the film and novel portray the theme of family yet display them differently through their use of dialog and speech. Benigni portrays a deep family connection which contrasts with Fly Away Peter in which Jim and his father experience a tense relationship. In the film, Benigni has used the actor’s speech to portray the close bond the family share. Whilst Guido and Giosue are heading to the concentration camp, Dora explains to the solider “My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on…

Comparing the articles related to Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away, they not only share some similarities but also differentiate between each other. Three main similarities can be found in the articles. First of all, all the articles pay attention to interpreting characters and their references. The most popular characters are the witch Yubaba and No-face. Some interpretations are similar as well. Reider (2005) and Napier (2006) both link No-face with Noh, Japanese traditional art. The mask…

Animation, at the start is simply a sketch - a drawing if one would, then it evolves to character design, framework, colouring and refining until finally reaching the animation clip. Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is shown to the left as an example of the sketch progressing into the framework or screenshot. The pencil work that is the starting point of all ideas is utilised as the foundation to every artistic form. The technique is the same, but the degree of the detail an artist puts into the sketch…

Spirited Away takes place in Japan. In the movie there is a human world and a spirit world. In order to get to the spirit world, one must arrive at an abandoned theme park and walk through it. When it gets dark, the spirits come out, and one is stuck in the spirit world until they find a way to get out. In the spirit world there is a bathhouse; this is where spirits are cleaned. The main character in Spirited Away is Chihiro, or Sen. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro is shy and easily…

Castaway is a movie starring Tom Hanks as the main character, Chuck. Throughout the movie, Chuck shows again and again how important communication is to him. It starts out with him delivering packages and such for FedEx, but as a plane he had boarded crashes, he begins to face some difficult challenges. He floated to an island, survived for a long period of time, and constructed a raft to transport him across a vast amount of water to a ship where he was rescued. Four major things in Castaway…

Hayou Miyazaki’s film “Spirited Away” is immersed on the transformation and empowerment of the protagonist, a 10-year-old girl named Chihiro, while confined in a supernatural realm once her parents are placed under an evil spell and transformed into pigs. Miyazaki’s film takes a jab at our society by digging into what mankind has produced, and what a woman has to offer it, eliminating violence and encouraging empathy. Miyazaki exposes themes of feminism and human impact on the environment…

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film set in America, which involves two main characters, Wink and Hushpuppy. Hushpuppy is Wink’s daughter and they both overtake many obstacles together. Spirited away is an animation film whose main characters are a family of three: Chihiro and her parents. The family is moving to another Japanese town when they come across a hidden spirit world that seems like an abandoned theme park. The films Beast of the Southern Wild and Spirited Away…