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This 3 page paper discusses some of the techniques author Tim Winton uses to position readers of his novel “Cloudstreet.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it almost defies description. This paper discusses how the author positions the reader through his use of character, plot and themes. Discussion Trying to analyze Cloudstreet is like trying to
nail Jell-O to a tree. Wintons style is eccentric in the extreme. For example, there isnt one direct quotation in the entire novel. People hold conversations without benefit of quotation
marks so that it sometimes takes a moment before the reader understands that someone is speaking. The chapter divisions are extraordinarily long, but within the chapters are myriads of short
scenes, some only a paragraph. The entire thing is a patchwork, a series of snapshots that whirl the reader along without giving him time to take a breath. The two
families that end up in the vile old mansion are the Lambs and the Pickles, and they come together through poverty and bad luck. Sam Pickles loses his fingers in
an accident at work; and the Lambs have, among their other problems, a son named Fish who is brain damaged from a near-drowning. Dolly Pickles, Sams wife, is a drunk
and Oriel Lamb is a flint-hard woman actually has a fist-fight with her son. The families wind up living in a haunted house that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks.
What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given to the way in which writers shape readers reactions to their work (Watson, 2008).
A writer might want a readers approval of his ideas and themes, and "position" the reader so that he gives that approval. The writer does this in various ways, such
as using techniques like foreshadowing, irony and other stylistic elements to elicit the desired response to the writers ideas, characters and plot (Watson, 2008). That is, the writer deliberately tries
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