Henry lawson: In a dry season

Henry lawson: In a dry season

1. The landscape

   • Railway
     • blandness

2. Bush Characters

   • "a little further we saw the first sun-downer"
     • stereotype: bush person

3. Isolation

   • He travels for a night and day without a bite to eat and on arrival, he finds that the station is eighty or a hundred miles away"
     • Descriptive, distinctive experience. showing the isolation.

4. SKETCH

   • "Draw a wire fence, a few ragged gums...."
     • Hyperbole: harsh, dry conditions, isolation

5. Harsh reality of the bush

   • "only thing cheerful....."