Comparative Essay of Dirt Music and Journey to the Stone Cou

             In comparing Dirt Music by Tim Winton, and Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller, both novels have numerous similarities and differences.  Winton and Miller have based both their novels in Australia.  The focus is on the journeys that the characters in each novel take. Winton's  journey of finding one's self and seeking forgiveness, in contrast to the finding and examination of one's past and 'moving on'. Miller's characters seek to find reconciliation, Winton's characters seek salvation. The use of the Australian landscape by both authors' plays a pivotal role in both novels. The contrast in setting is that they are on opposite sides of the Australian seaboard. Language is different in that Dirt Music is colloquial vernacular, and Journey to the Stone Country is native vernacular.
             Winton uses the fictional town of White Point as Dirt Music's the main setting, whilst Miller begins Journey to the Stone Country in suburban Melbourne (Carlton).  Both novels share a storyline of travelling north. Set in early summer, present day, Dirt Music begins in White Point and journeys north West Australia to Broome, via the out back towns of the Kimberley region. Coming to a final conclusion at the fictional Coronation Gulf islands (Buccaneer Archipelago, actual name of islands in region), located on the rugged coastline of north Western Australia.  Set in the winter of 1995 Journey to the Stone Country travels through the Northern Central region of Queensland. Townsville, Mackay, Ranna Station, Mt Coolon, and Verbena Station. The name Verbena being symbolic, meaning a garden plant with different coloured flowers. Bo remarks on his grandmothers acceptance of all colours: 'There was no distinctions made while Grandma was alive' (Miller, 25).
             Bo Rennie is the antagonist in Journey to the Stone Country, as is Luther Fox in Dirt Music. Luther is a shamatuer. His action...

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