Community In The Play 'Embers' By Campion Decent

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Campion Decents play “Embers” examines the connection between individuals and the community as the react to significant events. To what extent is this true? A community is a group of people living together in one place. Writers deeply explore the connection between individuals and a community as they react to significant events. This is evident in “Embers” by Campion Decent and the audio recording “Embers Returns”. Campion Decent explores these events using verbatim theatre and closely interviews many community members to learn about the connection and evaluate the community members on how they got through the 2003 Victorian bushfires. Three significant events in the play “Embers” are the wildlife sanctuary worker, the Blue Duck hotel…and…show more content…
It is about the fires heading towards the pub, destroying the valley on its way, but it can’t destroy the pub as it was flooded, the fire was travelling at 172 km an hour and it knocked them flying. Jim and Graeme fought the fire for an hour and forty-five minutes but they just couldn’t take It anymore. The use of onomatopoeia in “everywhere you looked was bright pink. And it was getting redder and redder. And all of a sudden it just went BANG”. This creates a sense of emotion as the fire was on its way towards them and also emphasises on the bang which brings it to the listener’s attention. Also in the previous quote was also imagery, it gives the audience a feel of how the valley looked in the fire. Alliteration is present in the quote “The heat was horrendous”; it provides emphasis and engages the audience to know just how hot it was on the day of the fires. At the end of the story, Jim gave the hose to the kangaroo and it used it to put out the fire, saving the

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