The South by Ruth Parks Analyzed in Respect to Rites of Passage, Physical Setting, Style and the Roles of the Characters

The Harp In The South By Ruth Parks
The novel The Harp In The South by Ruth Parks. It tells the story of the Darcy family, who live in poverty in 1940's Surry Hills, an inner-city slum suburb of Sydney. The style that Ruth Park writes is amazing. It's almost like tapestry: a collection of motley scratched scraps of wool that she interweaves together to create something heartbreakingly beautiful even though it is something that is quite ordinary up close. Her use of similes and metaphors shape the text, so that the responder can get a visual image in his/her head. Which sets the setting. Her deep descriptions which are so detailed (Blistered green door), that you feel what the characters are feeling (sick, sad, sympathetic ect.). …