Henry Lawon

The way this story is written is quite interesting. It looks natural, like a yarn being told about bush life without much artistic planning, but in fact it is carefully structured. The effect of casualness is achieved mainly through the tone of the narrative: the use of the present tense in the opening lines, and short sentences like "No undergrowth".

The narrator himself is omniscient, able both to read the characters' minds and fill in the background for the reader. The point of view is often very close to that of the

Henry Lawson uses many techniques in his short stories to captivate the reader's attention. In The Loaded Dog, he describes the setting of the story in great detail. He is careful in building the plot and includes suspense. Like every good author, Henry Lawson has a climax and resolution in his short stories. The mood is explicit and he uses a powerful tone.

In “Joe Wilson Courtship”, the humour is based on a naïve character and the narrator and protagonist of the story is the main character, Joe Wilson. It is the older Joe looking back on the younger man he once was and a story about how he met his wife. The tone of the story suggests the distance in time between the present and the past and also emphasises the gap between the man he was and the man he is now. Thus the story combines the enthusiasm and innocence of youth with the sarcasm of maturity.

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