Sean and Davids Long Drive
Sean and David’s Long Drive tells the story of two friends who decide to travel around Australia in a Ford Falcon to escape their dull and boring lives in urban Australia. The story is told through diary entries written by Sean Condon, the author and proud ‘generation X-er’ which give details regarding Sean’s thoughts about where they are, who they’ve met and any experiences along the road worth noting. Sean’s idea of Australian tourism is constructed though his use of techniques such as setting, point of view, characterisation, language, selection of detail and the fragmentation of time which he uses to create a mixture of the ‘good the bad and the ugly’ of his experiences on the road. The details Sean gives in his travel log are predominately critical of people, places and encounters he experiences on his journey, which create an image of Australia which is in great contrast to that of tourism guides and the general perception of Australia. Sean doesn’t leave anything out of his journey, as stated by Kathy Bail of Rolling Stone: “You’ll be shown the crap and the weird stuff as well as the scenic wonders” although the majority of the text focuses on the negative or ‘crap.’ It is
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Approximate Word count = 1853
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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