Amanda Lohrey's Novella 'Vertigo' Hsc Module a 'Distinctively Visual'
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Composers use distinctively visual techniques to create connections between characters and to examine human experiences and relationships. Through the abundance of techniques, visual images deliver messages that help the audience to gain an understanding of the world around them. Such techniques are portrayed extensively through the rich tapestry of the novella ‘Vertigo’ by Amanda Lohrey, supported by the small, distinct illustrations by Lorraine Briggs, and the poem ‘We are going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Similarly, both of these pieces explore the concepts of grief, and the importance of the natural world, portraying how each element affects humankind and provides insight into the resilience and our ability to transform after disaster.
Grief can alter our perception of existence and can expose human experience through our level of resilience. Amanda Lohrey’s novella ‘Vertigo’ is centralised around traumas buried deep in the subconscious and are revealed through Lohrey’s seamless passage between Luke and Anna’s thoughts, ”Luke even now feels like a stranger” What becomes apparent is a trauma they cannot admit to each other. “The day he thought he had put out of his mind once and for all” Anna and Luke’s grief is hidden within ‘the boy’, a figurative child they fabricated to deal with their loss. The ambiguity used by Lohrey is to question ‘the boys’ existence through the reader’s eyes. Often ‘surfing’ the TV channels to look for a connection to the outside world Anna watches coverage of Iraq, where the “upended bodies splayed onto the road” whilst Luke chooses to loose himself in a journey much like their immediate experience in the ’exotic tones of a religious pilgrimage of Sir Frederick Treves’ which is ‘An account of a tour of Palestine.” Both places give an intensely graphic description of the Middle East but it ultimately foreshadows the fire to come in Garra Nalla, Sir Frederick Treves account is a metaphor for both protagonists ‘promised land.’...
Grief can alter our perception of existence and can expose human experience through our level of resilience. Amanda Lohrey’s novella ‘Vertigo’ is centralised around traumas buried deep in the subconscious and are revealed through Lohrey’s seamless passage between Luke and Anna’s thoughts, ”Luke even now feels like a stranger” What becomes apparent is a trauma they cannot admit to each other. “The day he thought he had put out of his mind once and for all” Anna and Luke’s grief is hidden within ‘the boy’, a figurative child they fabricated to deal with their loss. The ambiguity used by Lohrey is to question ‘the boys’ existence through the reader’s eyes. Often ‘surfing’ the TV channels to look for a connection to the outside world Anna watches coverage of Iraq, where the “upended bodies splayed onto the road” whilst Luke chooses to loose himself in a journey much like their immediate experience in the ’exotic tones of a religious pilgrimage of Sir Frederick Treves’ which is ‘An account of a tour of Palestine.” Both places give an intensely graphic description of the Middle East but it ultimately foreshadows the fire to come in Garra Nalla, Sir Frederick Treves account is a metaphor for both protagonists ‘promised land.’...