Embers Essay

In the play Embers catchfly mighty gives the audience the opportunity to simultaneously react to the plays events intellectually, and to learn the characters emotional connection between themselves and the partnership. Embers demonstrates how a community can support each other in the aftermath of a natural disaster. This is clearly shown through and through verbatim stories of contrastive characters such as Keith, the RC ladies and at the end different characters advance together as one and retelling their stories.To a large extent the standard of community is shown through a range of techniques utilise throughout the play. In addition its supported by quotes directly from audio recordings of Campion Decent himself. In the play the importance of community involvement is demonstrated when Keith breaks down under the pressure of fighting burn offs. Keith reacts by being stubborn about the posture when a young CFA worker lost his cool during the fires.The substance abuse of idiom lost it and the imperative form repetition of hose the prick down (page 77-78) is used as Keith gives a sense of authority and urgency in a brutal and direct order giving the kid no concessions because he is young. Keith is intransigent that he will not go home as he repeats I wint leave because it my area, its my fire and I wont leave and the repetition of personal pronouns reinforces that he is in charge when he says Thats my area. They vote me in as captain. My responsibility to stay This shows that he is captain and under the pressure of controlling the fires in his area.The strong connection between the community and various(prenominal)s is reinforced when Keith shows that he doesnt want to let him community down, yet it is his community members can see that he has lost it and needs a rest. The irony is that he cannot see that the members of the community are trying to befriend him by sending a priest and counsellor. This emphasises that belong to a community provides him support, solace and assistance in times of hardship. In the audio recordings of Campion Decent, it mentions that Campion interviewed a volunteer fire fighter of about forty years live.Decent states that tears began to roll down his face (referring to the experienced fire fighter) he had been quite jovial the tears began That interview, as well as Keiths story reinforces that the community is connected by individuals who sacrificed so much to preserve the communitys existence. Throughout the play an importance is placed on how great it is to be Australian and how Australians come together in times of need. In the brook view people talk about their impressions and experiences, of what they saw, felt and how they dealt with the fire as a community.Noel Hodda in the ABC interview states what it does this play it draws all the strings of different lives and community together and it shows how we as Australians in a large community and a small community are always ready to step up and give each other a hand. This imagery reinforces the positives about being an Australian, which means being there for someone in need and coming together as one and helping each other, upgrade showing the connection between individual and community.A technique used in this scene is when the D/farmer uses the idiom light at the end of the tunnel. This symbolism is used to show that when they went through the difficult stage of dealing with the fire that there is sign of hope in the future. Graham also states that at the end of the day you can be knocked down, kicked around, and everything run over the top of ya. This supports the estimation that there is always someone there that will give you a hand, which reinforces the importance of the interconnection between individuals and their community.Another representation of community is shown through the personal identity of the RC ladies who come together as one and help assist the community by providing meals for the workers. Th is is seen in the quote RC wench 1 And we were told to feed CFA but RC Lady 2 We fed em all RC Lady 3 We were told by them they were professionals . The short sentence dialogue, spoken by the RC ladies, reinforces that there is a lot of individual opinions in the group. However they all have the one idea and come together as a community in supporting and assisting everyone who needs help.This is further reinforced by the repetition of the reference to the community group as we. The sense of irony in the quote and we had complaints that they were putting on weight brings in a sense of humour and shows how well the RC ladies have banded together to fed the workers. Campion Decent states in the recordings For me its about the human experience and how people navigate themselves through an event of such innate nature. This reinforces to the audience that through the hard times every person experienced the extreme nature of the fires together as a community and survived.Throughout the play, Embers, a powerful connection between the community and its individuals is successfully conveyed. This is shown through an exploration of how belonging to a community provides support, solace and assistance in times of hardship, how Australian individuals come together to assist others in times of need. This supported through the use of various techniques throughout the play also by the quotes directly from audio recordings of Campion Decent.