Wake_in_Fright

Wake in Fright “Wake in fright” first appealed to me through its title rather than its promised content. At first I found the novel very tedious to read and lacking in the action that was promised by the title but as I continued through the text I became engrossed in this violent story of animal people and animal customs set in the overpowering heat of the Australian outback. The language, I found was not difficult to comprehend and was simplistic and basic. I feel that if the language were any more complicated than this it would have taken the focus off the storyline, which is at times a labour to fully comprehend. Although as the storyline became more erratic I sometimes found myself lost in the speech of the text in which the main character thinks to himself which matches in some ways how erratic the character’s life has become. One of the first things I noticed about the text was that there was a very heavy, depressed tone which continued to increase throughout the text as Grant’s stay in Bundanyabba continued and gradually worsened so the tone reflects Grant’s helplessness and his state of mind. In the opening pages Cook presents us with people wake, fright, text, novel, grant, found, tone, throughout, story, outback, grant’s, continued, characters, character, became, animal, very, title, through, storyline, start, shown, promised, people, overpowering, off, main, made, language, john, first, felt, feel, erratic, comprehend, australian, yet