Classism on the streets.
Time of year: Winter. cool breeze. Warm coats, boots and scarves. Spending time at home
Place and time: On the streets of Wellington. Wealthy area. Centre city. Busy with activity. Everyone is happy and engaged. Overview of the scene and then ‘zooms in’ to the stranger on the streets. Progresses from Day to Night. Lots of activity vs the quiet of the night.
Who is there: Wealthy businessmen. Curious children. Everyday shoppers. A lonely stranger on the street.
This piece of creative writing is expressing the prejudice of everyday society using a structure-based of a prologue to a famous play by Dylan Thomas. This piece is based on the prejudice ideas of society that are viewed towards someone that is sitting on the street. We will be following the structure of Dylan Thomas’s piece as it will be showing a scene through a changing in time. I will be utilising this and showing a change of time from day to night. The streets of Wellington are my setting. I hope to use the people and the setting to enhance how different people are treated, just by their position on the street. Are they walking past with expensive bags, or looking long fully at the windows of shops, or will it be someone that is sitting with their belongings on the ground? I will use the type of people that are there, to convey the way in which people are judged by how they look. I hope to convey the busyness of the streets in the day and slowly bring in the character sitting on the streets as it moves towards a quieter night. To convey the loneliness, and how disregarded by the society he is. I hope to portray this and bring light to it, then bring in the voice of the character. The first part of the text is set to feel that the person on the streets in a burden and shouldn’t be there and is lower than them in class, while the last paragraph will be from his point of view and seeing how different the world looks and how hurtful our actions are to others. For the first four paragraphs this I want to build on the hatred society feels towards this man and build on the setting, then in the last paragraph, change the scene to be from his point of view. Using features such as using positive connotative language to describe the scene then negative connotative language when the man comes into view and anything about him is mentioned to help create the idea of him being disregarded by society.