Essay Draft Cloudstreet

Tim Winston has a love of writing stories. This is evident in his novel Cloudstreet where he cleverly writes many short stories which contribute to the plot development of a saga about two families. Another way that Winton’s love of story telling appears in the novel is through his use of descriptive language and vivid detail in many of his scenes. He also, through his characters in the novel, gives a message to the readers, which displays his love of telling stories.

Winton’s plot development in the novel portrays the love he has for telling a story. He writes many short stories which contribute to the novel in many ways. This style of plot development is called a saga or epic. One of these stories involves Fish, who is brain damaged due to nearly drowning, after being caught in a fishing net. Quick, and Fish rowed down the river on a boat that the ‘old man’ just bought. All of theses types of stories that Winston writes about just shows how much he wants to write stories....