The Outback

The Outback

1. How is it portrayed in Literiture

   • Who Portrays it?
     • Poets
     • Authors
     • Film makers
   • Adjectives
     • Physical
       • Barron
       • Bare
       • Dry
       • Unique
       • Unforgiving
     • Emotional
       • Lonesome
       • Frightening
       • Helplessness
       • Hopelessness
       • Rejected
       • Harsh

2. How is it used to create effect in literiture

   • Used for people who are outcasts
   • creates a sense of hoplessness
   • Soarks a feeling that the character has given up
   • Used as a place where people find their 'True colours"

3. Stereotypes

   • People
     • Hardened
     • tough
     • Bogan like
     • Lonely
     • Ferrel
     • Uneducated
     • Poor
     • Dirty
     • Outcasts
     • It messes people up
   • Landscape
     • Only the tough can survive
     • Uncivilised
     • Every man for himself
     • Wild
     • Unforgiving
     • NO way of getting back to the normal world

4. Examples

   • People From the outback
     • Sleeping dogs
       • Edward
         • Freak
         • 'The sheep's head hangs loosely... Edward jams the knife in'
       • Oliver
         • Different from the rest
         • 'he is no loner, and would call himself lonely'
         • 'The outside heat grips him like something with teeth'
         • he fears the isolation that leaving the farm would bring, the loss of what is familiar to him.
   • People coming to the outback
     • Pricilla
     • Outback Marriage
       • Dainty French Girl
         • she seemed about the last person in the world to take.
         • quite a neat little home was the result.’
     • Sleeping Dogs
       • 'Sights like these are what the caravan people come here to see'