Salty Taste of Summer

Megan Jacobson’s speech explores many powerful techniques and ideas, which collide together to form a very descriptive, powerful and inspirational narrative, that won her the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year 2001.

The purpose of the narrative made by Megan Jacobson was to entertain the general public and to enjoy. Another purpose, which Megan would have aimed at, was to win the competition (the SMH young writer of the year) and therefore gaining respect and admiration from others, not just from her area but also from around Australia and perhaps the world. The piece of writing was shown in the Sydney Morning Herald to a wide range of audience, from young teenagers to the elderly.

Megan Jacobson’s diction was chosen with a lot of power and thought. Megan uses very powerful and overwhelming words and phrases including “slivers of flesh that mingle with our sweat and tears of laughter” and “the weatherboard shacks we call our homes have paint bubbled and stripped off the timber by the sun’s relentless rays”. These are very significant as they shape the imagery scene. The use of verbs, metaphors, similes and adjectives are used to the full extent.

The complete story was very descriptive making it extremely easy to understand. Megan Jacobson has used many similes and metaphors, “A town where one end is a seashell’s throw from the other. Like a pair of old cossies rolled up and left on the sunny veranda after you’ve gone for a swim, the appearance is salt-stiffened dry, yet there is always a lingering dampness”. These detailing and long sentences and the use of metaphors and similes make the visual images easy for the audience to understand and relate to.

Throughout the entire narrative Megan has kept a positive attitude and is rewarded for making this story enjoyable for everyone. Nothing during the narrative had any negative values to it and that is one reason why this narrative is so wonderful and effective.

Towards the end of the narrative it became a lot more emotional and descriptive; “It flows in our blood, like sand mingling with the soil of Yabbie Bay. I think it is because when our mothers were pregnant with us, seawater entered their wombs when they swam, the rays of sunlight penetrated their bulging bellies when they sunbaked”. This paragraph gives the reader another view of the story. Megan has given her ow

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