Powerful Distinctive Images In Aquifer And Big World

Winton creates powerful vivid images in order to convey his ideas through a variety of techniques in his stories. The composer Tim Winton presents us with distinctive images in the stories “Aquifer’ and “Big World” to accentuate the ideas maturity, friendship, guilt and freedom and independence,

Throughout the story the protagonist begins to mature and becomes leery and skeptical. The protagonist suffered from guilt his entire life and has been psychologically affected and traumatised by the fact that the protagonist witnessed the death of Alan Mannering..

We see the protagonist mature throughout the story by listening to man announce the time. This provided the protagonist, as a young boy, a sense of certainty, reassurance and constant.

This is seen in “ I listened to the man from 1194 and knew that he was making the time up as he went along”.

The protagonist is soon traumatised by the death of Alan Mannering and is psychologically affected by the guilt he feels as if he was the reason of Alan’s death. The swamp was the most prominent place in the entire suburb and was a well attracted place. The swamp symbolises wonder, freedom, adventure and guilt and growing up.

This is accentuated when Alan Mannering and the protagonist unexpectedly meet each other at the swamp. Alan took the FJ Holden roof to the water and slided sideways falling into the swamp and never came back up.

The protagonist was shocked and terrified, that he just kept quiet and returned home. This is reflected in “I went home and said nothing”. This is a short, stark, sharp sentence . It is the major moment in the story, in his life. Alan’s death inflicted guilt upon him, making him conceive, that whenever he sees water, Alan Mannering is part of

All of these provide us with the fact that the protagonist suffered guilt, helplessly and vulnerable by the fact that he couldn’t erase the memory of Alan Mannering’s death.

The ideas of freedom, independence and friendship are outlined in the story “Big World”, by Tim Winton. The story follows two young men, the narrator and his best Biggie, escaping their ordinary past, to go on a journey and ironically it is a “Big World”. The story explores the idea of a person’s perspective, how moments can change things and how their friendship continues as they mature into adults, to make their own decisions and having freedom.

The theme of freedom and independence is delineated in vivid description “ We’ve reached a world where it isn’t bloody raining all the time, where nobody knows us and nobody cares, there’s just us and the love machine”. This emphasis the way he wants to be, from all the restrictions.

He enjoys the sense of freedom and independence. This is also reflected in contrast “ We’ll be growing things not killing them, we’ll move with seasons, we’ll be free”. This also delineates the way he feels the desire of freedom and