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Module a Clemmance - Distinctive Voices Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender

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HSC STUDY BUDDY 1 Module A –Distinctive Voices Essay Question: Compare the ways distinctive voices are created in ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’ and in ONE other related text of your own choosing. As language lies at the core of communication, composers are given the opportunity to use and manipulate written language through the vehicle of distinctive voicesshaping meaning and understanding of the wider world and people within a text. A great range of language techniques are used in my prescribed text, the novel ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’ by Marele Day and my related text the ‘Sorry Address’ by Kevin Rudd, with each composer using similar forms of language in order to create distinctive voices relating to genre, …show more content…

Similarly, Day uses the voice of Claudia and Harry Lavender to reveal Sydney’s moral corruption beneath the façade of its glamour and attractiveness. This concept of worlds within texts is highlighted as a result of the personifying of Sydney as Day metaphorically uses the vivid imagery of “a very sickly child, poxy and plagueridden”…” unpredictable child. She frowns, sulks and bursts out in a fitful rain”… “So pretty and so innocent, the façade of lights covered a multitude of sins” in order to bring the city “to life”. Day gives the audience a reflective look at the city’s development which has been ‘Annihilated by men making their own. Men who uprooted tress to decorate their edifices, levelled people’s homes to construct monuments to themselves, concrete and glass monuments reflecting their own images’. Through the distinctive voice of Claudia, Day expresses the idea that the city has been shaped by criminal overlords such as Harry Lavender, who have overturned the beauty and nature of Sydney with their male egos and power play. Claudia’s discontent of this development of Sydney is emphasised through the metaphorical allusion of ‘Sydney Tower dazzling the city with fool’s gold at sunset’ and the sinister language of ‘buildings with eyes gouged out have been demolished to make way for development’ when referring to Darling Harbour. Furthermore, Claudia’s statement ‘Except for museum pieces most of my city had been

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