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ty Challenge
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Ritual and Next day a funeral gathered at a corner pub and asked The Language is colloquial as it is The effect that this has is that it
Religion are not each other in to have a drink while waiting for the described from a 1st person creates a joyful atmosphere for a
meaningful to hearse. They passed away some of the time dancing perspective and the narrator seems depressing topic
Australians jigs to a piano in the bar parlour. They passed away the to not care that somebody has died
rest of the time skylarking and fighting. as they do not have a traditional
funeral but instead it was held at the
corner pub

We did hear, later on, what his real name was; but if
we ever chance to read it in the “Missing Friends
Column,” we shall not be able to give any information Disrupt
to heart-broken mother or sister or wife, nor to anyone
who could let him hear something to his advantage— The funeral and religious rites were Demonstrates that the union
for we have already forgotten the name. meaningless. members only gathered to ‘have a
drink’.

The technique being shown is Irony

“There’s the Devil.” I looked up and saw a priest as the priest is called ‘the devil’ by
standing in the shade of the tree by the cemetery the narrator and there friends Displays the attitude shown
gate. towards religion.
Australia has its The defunct was a young Union labourer, about - Helps the audience to be
own characters twenty-five, who had been drowned the previous day able to relate to the
(which while trying to swim some horses across a billabong of individual as he is
contribute to the the Darling. unnamed and unknown
way we see - Dismissive and negative
ourselves as a connotations- this word
means it no longer works
nation
and is no longer of use.

Alcohol is a “Next day a funeral gathered at a corner pub and asked - Gives a cultural identity to
bond between each other to have a drink while waiting for the Aussie men - stereotypical
Australian men hearse.” - Demonstrates

“One was drunk—very drunk.”

Australia has a “One was drunk—very drunk. The other two covered Repetition for emphasis. All classes and creeds of men in Reveal
class system their right ears with their hats, out of respect for the Australia drink to incapacitating
 departed—whoever he might have been—and one of levels
them kicked the drunk and muttered something to
him.”

There is a distinct class system in Challenge

“Most of the “Great Australian Dailies” have Australia but the poor and the very
mentioned in their brevity columns that a young man rich are all equal in death and as a
named James John Tyson was drowned in a billabong member of a union.
of the Darling last Sunday.”

Telling tall
tales /spinning a
yarn is
part of our
culture