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Do aspects of the story support any of the pictorial representations shown above? The story about the boy who kills kangaroos might have something to do with the representation of the kangaroo being cooked traditionally by the indigenous Australians, but the story stated many times that after the shot the kangaroos they would find them in the long grass and shoot them in the head and leave them there to die, so I do not think that it has any relevance to the representations above.

How is the boy represented at the beginning of the story? How does this representation change? At the beginning of the story we see the boy as some one harmless who is just going along with the older family member for the sake it and probably to prove himself as a man, which he later on says does not really feel any different, as the story progresses, we see that the boy is actually a lot like the older man he is with, and our view about him is completely changed by the end of the story.

How are you positioned positively towards the boy? You are positioned positively because the boy is just doing what he is told, the old man says shoot and the young boy shoots he seems fairly innocent, so this gives us a positive view on him and a negative one to the old man, because he is rude to this boy, telling him to never walk behind him and clearly jealous of this aim he has with a gun. How is the man represented?

How are you positioned negatively towards him? What does the man say about the purpose of killing the kangaroo that supports this? Through out the story we are positioned negatively towards the man because of the way he treats the young man and just the general feel towards him, he seems like a rude and stereotypically annoying old man, every time he shoots something he says 'Dead' like he doesn't have any sympathy or sorrow for the poor animal he has just shot, which also make us have a sort of hatred to the man because he is just cruel.

Repetition operates to build dramatic tension in the story so that we know as responders that something sinister is going to happen. Explain this. Through out the story, the name continues to say 'Dead' every time a kangaroo is dead, the repetition might build up to something happening to either the boy or the man we don't know, another repeated phrase is 'Don't walk behind me' shows that he is some what threatened by the boy and that yes, something sinister might happen in the end of the tale.

silenced? || ** The perspective of the swagman is privileged although it is in the eyes of the third person, we feel what the swagman is feeling, and how the surroundings affect his mood. || ** the perspective the is privileged is the one people at the beach, as we are viewing it in the eyes of a first person`, and some one who is also experiencing the warm feel of the sand and the soothing sounds of the water. || ** it is a triptych giving each panel a different point of view, in the first one the boy is privileged where the rest of the family is silenced and so on. || ** The perspective of the man by the billabong is being privileged as he is the only one in the painting. ||
 * Question || Text 1 || Text 2 || Text 3 || Text 4 ||
 * Text title & composer || Down on his luck, by Fredrick McCubbin. || A holiday in Mentone, by Charles Conder || he Pioneer, by Fredrick McCubbin || ====A Quiet day at Darebin by Tom Roberts. ==== ||
 * What is the text about? What ‘narrative’ about the bush & the Australian landscape is it trying to tell? || ** A single lonely swagman
 * Depressed and upset man
 * Admiring the bush the peaceful landscape
 * Subtle colours used to not overpower the image of the lonely swagman. || ** Residents by the Beach
 * Evidently wealthier people by the way they are dressed and Mentone is a fairly affluent part of Melbourne because is by the beach
 * It depicts a nice and sunny summers day || ** The test is about a family down by the bush
 * Camping
 * Relaxing
 * The landscape is very serene, and peaceful like the Australian bush is thought to be. || ** <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The painting depicts a bang down by a billabong, a billabong a very iconic Australian piece of land
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The lonely man, is obviously working here
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Enjoying the peace ||
 * Whose perspective is privileged/
 * What visual techniques are used to position us to accept this perspective? || ** <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The swagman is foregrounded, as he is the only person present in the painting meaning that McCubbin wanted us to predominantly have the perspective of this man || ** <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Visually, all of the objects in the painting are a realistic object to foreground the point of the view we are seeing. || ** <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The visual techniques of using three separate panels for the one 'story' of the painting. || ** <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The visual techniques such as foregrounding the man as he is the only person present in the painting and the scenery is very overpowering with the materials the artist used. ||