Tim Winton Literary Techniques

Australian author, Tim Winton (named a Living Treasure by the National Trust in 2007) has won numerous literary awards for his, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. Winton creates a connection between his book and his audience in a very spectacular manner as he creates a real feeling and attachment between the audience and his books.The three techniques that Winton uses within his stories is to make a theme, create a character for each person and then make a setting for the story. The key messages behind these three stories (On Her Knees, Sand and Immunity), each different however they all connect to the target audience and force them to think about their own life.

‘On Her Knees’ sends a message saying to never give up and keep your dignity. In this story the character ‘Me’ was going through university and wanted to get a job to help his mother pay for the costs, the only reason is, is that his mum doesn’t want him to get a part time job. The main problem that has happened in this story is that the mother

In this short story Winton tries to get the audience to know that confidence is key in most situations, in doing this he creates a story of a girl that was on a train. The girl then sees a young boy that gets aboard the train, she wants to go talk to him but is too shy. 4 hours later she builds up the confidence to go talk to him. Casually she sits next to him and starts having a conversation about his past in the army and how he had so many friends that he saw killed right before his eyes. Within this story I think Tim Winton is also trying to say to expect the unexpected, even though she built up the confidence to be able to go talk to the boy, I doubt she was expecting that he was in the war. The message behind this story is still what I think is all about