War in "Shoe Horn Sonata" by John Misto and "Grave of the fireflies" by Isao Takahata.

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War can create hardships unknown by any other event” discuss this statement with reference to the shoehorn sonata and a related text.

In the play the Shoe Horn sonata by John Misto reveals the complications that go hand in hand with war such themes of horror and survival along with loss.  Both Bridie and Shelia show friendship to each other even when they disagreed they constantly remained symbols of support for each other help to get thru the war. These issues of war are similar to the anime film Grave of the fireflies by Isao Takahata with a brother and sister recently orphaned Seita and Setsuko struggle on their own at the end of World War 2. Through distinctively visual techniques both these text unite to highlight the hardships of war.

Adversity is depicted through the use of distinctly visual techniques in the shoehorn sonata. And example of this is the sound effects, in this case the of lapping waves in the distance while Shelia speaks. This emphasizes the irony as Shelia describes to the audience the horror of the sea when the Japanese collected women and children and also the sinking of the ships. It is ironic as while Shelia talks about the distress the sounds of waves are calm and soothing. This successfully shows the audience the hardships of war.  Similarity to this is the grave of the fireflies as Seita shows adversity when there is a dead body on the beach and being the caregiver of his little sister he calmly describes the dead body as “sleeping” the technique of close up is used to show the rotting dead body a result of the war. Therefor it is evident that the grave of the fireflies used distinctly visual techniques to represent the hardships of war.

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In the shoe horn sonata hardship is demonstrated with distinctively visual techniques such as projected images. In the play there are projected images of the evacuation of Singapore on the 13th of February 1942. Showing women and children boarding ships, clutching toys and waving goodbye unaware they would be victims of histories worst and least know massacre. This shows that the attack was unexpected and casts Bridie in a victim role. She is innocent and has no choice. This builds sympathy to their responder therefore making the audience aware of the hardships that come with war.

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