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Page - Quote - Technique - How it adds to your understanding of a theme

Additions that I think use language or make links particularly well I have changed the colour of.

__ **Imagery, Descriptive language, Figurative Language etc** __ P 30: Descriptive language helps us to image the ship and the rush of the attack .//' I was on a small ship. It was called the Giang Bee. It sailed out of Singapore with three hundred people', 'there were people running everywhere. I could see them quite clearly, the deck was so bright. But this wasn't moonlight. The Japanese had found our ship and fixed a searchlight on it.'//

p.36. "But I reminded myself I was a Women of the Empire." this quote makes us Imagine that shelia looks down toward all the other countries because she believes because she was from England she believed that she was above everyone else.

**__Relationship between the Visual and Spoken/ Written__** p 32. (stage directions) "whimpering a line or two from J//erusalem"// Sheila's hesitance in joining in the singing of Jerusalem shows their reluctance to relive/ remember what has happened.

**__What is Visible and what is Invisible__** p.35 "and now, on stage we see a large Japanese Flag, the blood red rising sun" - the visible image of the Japanese flag being plastered on the wall behind, the white rectangle and the red circle, both representing the Japanese but also conveying the colour of blood which is very common during the war and the mistreatment of the prisoners of war. p. 30. "//Slides are projected onto a screen at the rear of the stage - photographs of the evacuation of 13 February, 1942. Images of women and children boarding ships, clutching toys and waving goodbye. It is hard to believe from their happy faces that they are soon to be victims of history's worst - and least known - massacre."// This statement represents the underestimated power that Singapore and the British and Australian empires had of the Japenese. Singapore had no idea of the brutality heading their way, nor of the events that were to occur once the Japs would take over. This represents the theme War and Atrocities.

**__Symbolism__** Pg 31 Friday 13th- This represents bad luck and this is the day their ship sunk.

p. 31 Technique- repetition and direct quote "Jump for it! Jump for it!" This makes you realise how much danger they were in.

P.30 scene3-slides are projected onto a screen at the rear of the stage- photographs ofthe evacuation of 13 February, 1942. Images of woman and children boardingships, clutching toys and waving good by. These photographs are a symbol of not only the panic but the ignorance of the British and their incompetence.

__**Scene3 Questions**__
 * Q1- Shiela's discomfort is evident at the beginning of this scene. How does Misto position the audience to visualise this through the dialogue, music and stage directions**? We know Shiela's feeling discomfort because the stage directions are saying (nervously) and when she was touching the microphone she was making a loud, uncomfortable sound. Dialogue BRIDIE to SHIELA "Dont fidget with it girl." People tend to fidget and feel uncomfortable when they're nervous.


 * Q2- The following issues are explored in this scene.. ISSUE**: Attitudes to women **DRAMATIC FEATURES:** Slides are projected onto a screen of the evacuation of 13th Feburary 1942, images of women and children boarding ships, clutching toys, and waving goodbye **WHAT IS VISUALISED?** Women and chidren looking sad waving goodbye to their loved ones. **HOW THIS AFFECTS MEANING/RESPONSE** Feeling sadness and empathy for the people.


 * Q3- Explain how Shiela's dialogue further intensifies our image of her and the story of her capture.** Shiela's dialogue intensifies our image of her because she is a young girl who has been sent of without her parents. Its also intense becaus of the way she's telling us, she's saying on thing after the other. "The Japanese had found our ship and fixd a searchlight on it - to pin us in position". - This intenifies everything because your waiting for the next move and wondering whats going to happen next.


 * Q4- How does the "very, very bright spotlight", the sound of lapping waves, the slides and the voiceovers of the young Shiela and Bridie add to the images conveyed in the dialogue?** Its showing us images but then other things going on brings it to life and makes it seem more real.


 * Q5- What image is created when Shiela and Bridie hold hands and the Japanese voices are heard on the soundtrack? How is the audience positioned?** Terror is created. We are feeling for them because they are tired and scared and the Japnese hav got them.