© 2020 T's Textbooks Pty Limited ATF R C White Family Trust. The activity influenced our conceptual framework in ways that aren’t always credited. Lacking language to represent our experiences to ourselves and others, we may come to be “haunted” by memories of the events. Winton zooms in on minute details of his grandparents’ way of living, using alliteration to draw attention to their idiosyncratic method of communication (crashing cymbals). ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…’, Winton seeks to establish a relationship between religion and the natural world that coheres with his sense of identity. This lack of language not only allows us to be haunted by traumatic memories but can create a sense of disintegration.

“[Betsy] was a dumpy colonial sedan of unmistakably British provenance, a testament to modesty and low expectations. Winton values and is strongly connected to the natural world. havoc’s paradoxical potential to destroy but also to create positive change. Nan stood in the street and waved us off with a long and jaunty waggle of her right leg. Didn’t we know this was art? Even the grandest poetic language is hard-pressed to contain or carry an intimation of grace. Although his childhood religious experiences shaped Winton’s identity formation, changes in the church community and in his own experiences resulted in him leaving that community. Growing up Winton considered some aspects of his family’s behaviour a source of shame. The essay form, often discursive in style, offers Winton great flexibility in terms of his approach to his subject matter. I stayed where I was, lashed to the wheel, in a state I had no language for.” Winston’s younger self lacked words to give a name to his intense emotional reaction to the accident and this lack of language meant that Winton’s younger self was unable to create distance between what had happened and what he felt by representing his experiences in words. While not strictly an autobiography, many essays contain autobiographical elements, and each essay is influenced by Winton’s personal connection to the subject matter, whether the subject is family life, the decision to write, or the environment. I wait and wait and then I glide and flow….The wider culture expects you to hurl yourself at the future. T’s Textbooks is a family business with over This lack of shoes reflects the family’s working class, Western Australian origins. “Bees kill many more Australians than do sharks every year, but there is no war on bees.”. That’s the benefit of all that bobbing and waiting. And she’d be a vintage ride now.”. Always and without fail – it was her signature move. Language is not an experience itself….Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: ‘Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.’ In matters of the spirit words are poor cousins to music. He leaps from the vehicle in defence of his father and king-hits the drunk with the lantern. Instead “I had to be ‘wise beyond my years’, to assume an unlikely authority, to understand what I could not pronounce.”. “As a beach kid I knew there were things to be leery of – sucking currents, stings and jagged rocks – but I still felt the sea was utterly benign. the influence of Winton’s own text (consider especially section III where Winton comes into contact with a shark but doesn’t flee the water, instead continuing to surf).

As a novelist I seem to have spent every working day of my adult life in a vain search for the right word…”, “A lot hung on that single word [wine], as it did later upon slave, demon and menI…. Winston recounts an unlikely connection between the largely working class church congregation and Tolstoy: “I’d be surprised if anyone at my boyhood church had read even a page of Tolstoy, but it seems to me now that the question that ate at him so late in his life was the central issue for us, too. “Most people hate to see creatures mistreated.

The Boy Behind the Curtain is a collection of non-fiction, often personal, essays by celebrated Australian writer Tim Winton.

Yet in a second, from thin air, they can manufacture chaos and carnage.” (37), “All I can say is that I witnessed Dad’s swift restoration and renewal and was grateful for it… I think of it as an act of grace. Winton explores this irrational and paradoxical fear of sharks and attempts to challenge readers’ assumptions. What then must we do?”. Should we be afraid of sharks? But when there’s so much opportunity for people to be vile, it strikes me as a miracle that they choose mercy, restraint and decency as often as they do.” (43), “Before the accident there seemed to be plenty of time in which to find my way, but now I thought differently. Winton is deeply critical of that idea: The contempt for creation bothered me… During the Cold War they welcomed the eve of destruction as an opportunity to ‘go home’ and as a result they turned their backs on temporal concerns. So too the planet’s ailing health… It was bitterly ironic, given how often we all intoned our favourite Bible verse…. Patients who step out for a fag by the taxi rank will pace and smoke and weep like actors in a film noir.”, “People literally carry their troubles on the pavement before you: their sick and shrieking child, their disoriented parent, the demon hissing in their ear.”, “At the kerbside shocked and grieving families unravel in public…I’ve seen people flog each other with cardigans, shoes, bunches of flowers.”.
Its duco was cardigan grey… On a good day the interior smelt like an abandoned cinema.”. Each text includes:

Within a year I was telling anyone who’d listen that I was going to be a writer.”, Returning to the gallery as an adult, Winton notes the changes in the artists included in the exhibitions. Setting 40 years’ experience.
Particular care has been taken to ensure that students are able to examine each text in the context of the module it has been allocated to. Divers often killed sharks for sport… These displays were like public executions, the criminal species strung up for the crowds, as if the only good shark were a dead shark and we needed to see this butchery acted out again and again for our own wellbeing.”, “in the popular mind it’s a terrorist, an insidious threat we must arm ourselves against.”, “We pressed our noses to the glass and thumped it with our fists…This was it, the lurking fear in plain view. Storytelling through time and challenging assumptions. Note the caustic tone, sensory imagery and simile. “cops are never fresh and after a while they can’t disguise their endless disappointment in people…And as a kid you sense this. Winton suggests that these experiences of wordlessness affect the way we experience traumatic events and how we remember them. It’s a treat to watch them. These behaviours are linked in the text by their connection to Betsy. By and large nobody cares.”, Creating and fanning irrational fear and panic, Revealing the majesty and mystery of sharks and our complex relationship to them. She lived in a tent in the backyard while Pop shared the bedroom with the kids and the in-laws. In this instance, his younger self was unable to represent to himself and others the impact of his father’s accident. The Top Notes series has been created to assist HSC students of English in their understanding of set texts. Setting Most were deeply personal and memoir-ish in style, while others were more factual as Winton described his passion for environmental issues and gave us some insights into the writing process. Living out this challenge is a key aspect of individual and collective human experience. Winton moves from individual narratives of his past (individual memories) to drawing on his own experiences to create stories of his own.

the changing nature of perspective and the inconsistency between one’s earlier views and later, mature thoughts. For him, this world, our world, the natural world is our home. Referring to Betsy’s quaint signal arms, Winton’s older self reflects: “Now, of course, I smile at the memory, but back then they were badges of family shame.”, In relation to his father’s decision to drive him in Betsy to his new school, Winton reflects that it “was kind, I know, but the gesture was wasted on me.”. Common Module – The Boy Behind the Curtain – Notes (Yolando) Home » HSC » Common Module – The Boy Behind the Curtain – Notes (Yolando) Return to document library Grade: HSC Subject: English Advanced Resource type: Notes Written by: Yolando Year uploaded: 2020 Page length: 6 . While I can, I ride its force. Or should sharks be more afraid of us? I was an innocent in my Eden.”, “Australians have a peculiar attitude towards sharks. Art is no longer represented as simply the works of white European men: instead “[at] the entrance to the Asian collection is a smouldering piece by an Indonesian artist, Haris Purnomo. Receive study guides, note, exam tips and bits of wisdom from our tutors each month. Visitors must travel from one world to another, from the outside world to a world of yearning and suffering inside the hospital. The complex nature of individual identity is explored in relation to Winton’s grandfather and his apparently inexplicable decision to buy Betsy, a dowdy car seemingly not in keeping with his eccentric character. The eccentricities of family life is visible in Winton’s personal anecdote concerning his grandparents’ living arrangements: My nan had a certain local reputation. The hospital with its artificial environment and particular practices stands in contrast to the life of the healthy outside. Tim Winton's The Boy Behind the Curtain – Study Notes for Common Module: Texts and Human Experience 2019-2023 HSC Winton feels shame on account of his grandfather’s car and his father’s desire to drive him to school in Betsy (once the car was passed on to him). Winton explores three main anomalies and inconsistencies: Identity: the complexity of individual identity and the apparent inconsistencies that this complexity involves. In the lee of a hospital the social camouflage slips away, and what’s usually disguised is on display. Language studies students each year.

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Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of important ideas contained in the texts. Maybe that’s just a fancypants way of appreciating the loving-kindness of humans. In the fictional version the boy behind the wheel can’t bear to watch the scene play out another moment. Morag Fraser, Australian Book Review. Knee stockings and all. The shadow the hospital: from the literal to the metaphorical, “For five years we lived in the very literal shadow of a major metropolitan hospital.”, After Winton’s meeting with his dying friend who could see Winton’s house from his hospital window: “Afterwards I often looked up at that dreary building as the sun lit its windows and thought of strangers staring out in hope and regret as the rest of us went about our days oblivious. Item ships from Sydney with tracking. Tim Winton's The Boy Behind the Curtain – Study Notes for Common Module: Texts and Human Experience 2019-2023 HSC. Character analysis Top Notes: The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton, Texts and Human Experiences 2019-2023 This series has been created to assist students of English in their understanding of set texts. Orang Hilang, a work of remembrance for the disappeared activists of the Suharto years, has the happy effect of inoculating the occidental viewer against narrowly ethnographic expectations.”.


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