>From: "Judy Menzies" <jmenz@ozemail.com.au>
>To: <henrylawson_rap@isuws2.itbcorpweb.det.nsw.edu.au>
>Subject: lawson_rap Rap Point 1A
>Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:12:41 +1100
>
>Dear Rappers,
>
>Hope to receive your ideas and comments on the following Rap Point 1:
>Do the contexts of Henry Lawson's stories still engage the reader today?
>
>Rap Point 1A:
>Does he have an agenda for choosing these particular settings?
>What are Henry Lawson's experiences of life in the bush?
>Is he writing from personal or 2nd hand experience?
>Do the composer's feelings about the subject matter come through clearly?
>
>Happy rapping everyone! Don't forget the address is
>henrylawson_rap@list.schools.nsw.edu.au
>
>Regards,
>Judy Menzies
>Coordinator
To fellow rappers,
we are a group from whitebridge high Mrs Collisons group called the skippy
club ( the class is divided into 4 groups) and we are replying to the
question you asked. Question: Do the composer's feelings about the subject
matter come through clearly?
Answer: Yes, we think it does because he experienced the hardship of the
bushlife and has lived in the lifestyle. quote " Many of Lawsons stories
which made a mark are centered on a small pocket of country on the interior
side of the Blue Mountains. There as a child he was the eavesdropper at a
thousand conversations : in the kitchen, at the wood heap, along the dirt
roads, at the farm fences, and at the top of the shafts where the windlass,
turned by hand, hald up the rope carrying the bucket full of clay or
water-worn rocks. The tiny settlement of pipeclay in central NSW as his own
domain, though he lived briefly in the goldrush town of gulgong and
sometimes went to school or work in Mudgee, which was a older farming and
pastoral town. Most of his celebrated stories, including the Joe Wilson
quartet, are set within a narrow radius of these childhood homes. Lawson
explains the issues very clearly so the responder feels apart of the story
and can understand whats happening.
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