Visual and Lexical elements page 16 & 17

everything i should have said :

I will be focusing on a book called “Woman’s World” by Graham Rawle. This book was set in the 1960’s and told a story of the struggles that people in the 1960’s faced, how Roy, and his sister Norma’s struggle to live up to the prescribed ideals of feminine perfection.

I focused on the visual and lexical elements of page 16 and 17. Graham Rawle used a lot of visual elements, such as the fonts and images, hence getting a message across to the readers. In this case, he used different font types, embolded words and/or phrases. This furthermore had an impact on the way the text was read and in some parts foreshadowed what was going to happen later on in the story. For example ; Rawle uses the image of the ice – cream clown, this indicates that it was that of ‘walls ice-cream’. This further shows us that the ice-cream was smushed, or disorientated. This refers back to the death of Norma and the emotions related to that incident. Roy is unable to deal with his emotions and at that point in time it implied that he felt helpless to the situation. This is the reason as to why Roy starts to cross dress, since he feels a sense of guilt. At the start of page 17, it says “our little Robin Hood”. This yet again refers back to the death of the younger sister, Norma and the helplessness tht Roy felt towards that issue as he “continued to watch from the tree”.  My thesis statement is ; Graham Rawle uses embolded lexical elements and visual imagery to portray the innocence of a child’s reaction to death. I feel that the examples that I have given support my thesis statement as Graham Rawle has used a variety of lexical and visual elements. The use of the word ‘blanket’ shows that Roy has to keep the identity of Norma is kept a secret and has to be kept a secret especially since it is not accepted by society.

He also enlarged the font, where it said “complexion”. This highlights that most people do care about the way that they present themselves