Shoe Horn Sonata Speech
Distinctively visual is an element that analyses language to help the audience construct and perceive visual images, shape meaning and to interpret main ideas and themes. Distinctively visual is based on the literature forming some sort of visualisation. The factors that make up the module include visual, aural and oral. The elements of distinctively visual include characterisation, dialogue, gesture, body language, dance, music, sounds effects, stage directions, dramatic imagery, lighting, symbolism which are all deliberate constructions that configure the distinctively visual module and affect the audience’s response. | In the Shoe-Horn Sonata, John Misto uses an analysis of dramatic, language and visual techniques to construct powerful images of Bridie and Sheila’s experiences in the prisoner of war camp (POW). Misto explores, through the two friend’s testimonies, the untold story of hundreds and thousands of women imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II. He conveys these experiences through the use of techniques such as 1st person narration, symbolism and music. In the Shoe-Horn Sonata, Misto effectively incorporates distinctively visual to shape understanding, meaning and purpose. His use of many literary and dramatic techniques have the ability to create a visual that links significant and impacting issues. | Distinctively visual is also evident in the song “I was only 19” by Redgum. This song relates to the difficult experiences soldiers encountered during the Vietnam War. Redgum also uses techniques such as 1st person narration, symbolism and music which enables the audience to feel the emotions of the soldiers and metaphorically walk in their shoes. These two texts are closely related as they are both about war and both closely communicate past experiences of people whilst at war and the detrimental effects it can have in later years. | Throughout The Shoe-Horn Sonata Misto uses the shoe-horn as the dominant motif. The Shoe-Horn is enforced in