Changing Perspective
...iation painting, where the handshake symbolises the welcoming of the Europeans by the Aborigines, while in the National Picture, the handshake symbolises the acceptance of the Aboriginal People by the Europeans. Techniques used to portray Changing Perspective within the two texts are: o The Superimposement of Truganini’s face. Truganini’s face has been fused with detail from the artist Byzantine’s painting of Jesus Christ. Jesus was crucified, and so was Truganini in a way. She was the last Tasmanian Aborigine, who died from genocide. Truganini faced the fear of being killed because of who she was. o The incorporation of the 20th century icons such as the esky, the surveyors levels and the stereo in the National Picture Painting portray the change in the Australian way of life. o Changing Perspective is exposed by the noticeable increase of the European inhabitants from the Conciliation painting to the National Picture and the decrease of the Aboriginal population. This suggests the British over taking the Aborigines rite to their land. o The background drop in the National Picture is a man made one, compared to the natural background incorporated into the Conciliation painting. This suggests that in recent years, Australia has become more of a man made environment. This may include the demolishing of trees to produce buildings. TEXT 2 (SHOW OVERHEAD) The Poem “A Few Years Ago” is written by Brenda Kay Haye. The Poem is about a person who revisits a place he/she has visited before. Many things have changed over the last few years. These changes include pollution, deforestation, air pollution and water pollution. Techniques included in this text which help the reader to understand changing perspective are: o The Rhythm- The rhythm is constant over the first four stanzas. The first five stanzas are equal in length, However there is no stable rhyming scheme in these stanzas. The last stanza is quite long in length compared to the first 5, it too does not have a constant rhyming scheme bu...