A distinctively visual text influences our view of the world, an object or a person by the composer presenting us with new ideas and emotions that let us see it from another point of view. Henry Lawson is an Australian writer that has the ability to twist his readers into his stories so they understand the true feelings and emotions of the characters. He presents us with the idea that the bush is a negative place to live, but all Australians have a connection with it. Both his stories “The drover’s wife” and “The loaded dog” show this connection with the land and convey the hard times experienced by the people living on it. Henry Lawson’s short story “The Drover’s Wife” is about a woman and her four children that must cope with the dangers and natural elements of the Australian bush. By Lawson not using a description of the women he makes the story symbolic to all women in her position through out the bush. Lawson establishes the bleakness of their environment in the first paragraph when he presents us with the image of “The stunted, rotten apple trees and thealmost waterless creek”. He then reflects this harshness with the characterization of “The gaunt sun-brown women” and her “Four ragged, dried-up looking children”, This shapes our understanding of the unique Australian traits of toughness and courage towards a hostile environment like the bush. Through the use of flash backs Lawson presents us with the different situations the women been confronted with and the way she has had to over come them while her husband has been a way. “She fought a bush fireShe fought a floodShe also foughta made bullock” and now a snake. This reinforces the harshness of the bush and the ability of the women to protect her family. “She was a determined looking women”. Lawson also uses the dog “Alligator” a “Big, black, yellow eyed dog of all breeds” as another protector of the family. The woman relies on the