The Outback

The Outback

How is it portrayed in Literiture
1. Who Portrays it?
  1. Poets
  2. Authors
  3. Film makers
2. Adjectives
  1. Physical
    1. Barron
    2. Bare
    3. Dry
    4. Unique
    5. Unforgiving
  2. Emotional
    1. Lonesome
    2. Frightening
    3. Helplessness
    4. Hopelessness
    5. Rejected
    6. Harsh
How is it used to create effect in literiture
1. Used for people who are outcasts
2. creates a sense of hoplessness
3. Soarks a feeling that the character has given up
4. Used as a place where people find their 'True colours"
Stereotypes
1. People
  1. Hardened
  2. tough
  3. Bogan like
  4. Lonely
  5. Ferrel
  6. Uneducated
  7. Poor
  8. Dirty
  9. Outcasts
  10. It messes people up
2. Landscape
  1. Only the tough can survive
  2. Uncivilised
  3. Every man for himself
  4. Wild
  5. Unforgiving
  6. NO way of getting back to the normal world
Examples
1. People From the outback
  1. Sleeping dogs
    1. Edward
      1. Freak
      2. 'The sheep's head hangs loosely... Edward jams the knife in'
    2. Oliver
      1. Different from the rest
      2. 'he is no loner, and would call himself lonely'
      3. 'The outside heat grips him like something with teeth'
      4. he fears the isolation that leaving the farm would bring, the loss of what is familiar to him.
2. People coming to the outback
  1. Pricilla
  2. Outback Marriage
    1. Dainty French Girl
      1. she seemed about the last person in the world to take.
      2. quite a neat little home was the result.’
  3. Sleeping Dogs
    1. 'Sights like these are what the caravan people come here to see'

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