Distinctively Visual Mini Essay

Different texts have ways of creating a scene or a distinctively visual experience for their audience through different techniques used through the different styles of text. Written texts use language and aural techniques to create this visual experience while an artist may use visual techniques to create a message through a visual text to tell a story. The Shoe-Horn Sonata, a play by John Misto gives evidence of the use of creating distinctively visual scenes and imagery through the aural techniques. While photographer Nick Ut uses photographic techniques in his image of The Naplam Girl of Trangbang. The image creates a story with the techniques is uses. Both texts refer to times during World War II and reflect experiences of both prisoners and civilians during these times of war and the theme of truth of war is explored similarly in both texts.. The texts have to recall a story from this time of war because the audiences they are directed at are those in which did not experience the effects of war and therefore the theme of truth of war is explored through the techniques used and for this the audience will slightly see what the effects of the war were.

Written text can display a distinctively visual scene through the use of aural techniques. John Misto uses images within the play of The Show-Horn Sonata to express a deeper truth behind how prisoners of war were treated during world war II. Scene seven, act one of the play starts with a display of images of starving women within a POW camp. The stage direction within the play reads “we see photos of some women POW’s, emaciated, haggard, impoverished” before the speaker says “were you ever this bad?” which starts the beginning of the scene. The use of this by Misto sets the scene for the following interview along with giving visual truth of war to the audience of the treatment and what the nurses within the prisoner of war camps went through during World War II. Once the images are shown the interview continues with the story