Harvie Krumpet Journey
PHOEBE HUGHES, YR 11 ADVANCED ENGLISH ESSAY – JOURNEYS DUE 15 MARCH, 2011
Everything in life can be related back to a journey - our character and ability to deal with situations will greatly influence the kind of people we will become. By studying the concept of a journey through a variety of texts, it is clear that it is the journey, not the destination that ultimately matters. The texts, Harvie Krumpet a Claymation short film by Adam Elliot, Stefania’s Dancing Slippers by Jennifer Beck and Lindy Fisher, and Tim Winton’s short story, Big World, reoccurring themes emerge with respect to life’s journeys. Among these are that a sojourner may experience lead to self-realisation and personal revelation, and sometimes, maturity. …show more content…
Other people around us contribute to our personal journey. This is shown in the text Harvie Krumpet, the use of irony when the doctor tells Harvie to smoke more cigarettes; only to have his condition worsen, this is an example that tells us that the doctor influenced his health in a negative way. This shows the audience that the people around us can have major impacts on our journeys, even the people that are expected to help us, often can cause worse damage. Throughout Harvie’s journey he has encountered many hardships, and many medical difficulties. Stefania’s Dancing Slippers explores a certain powerlessness in the face of events that arise on the journey. The use of salience when Stefania is separated from her mother depicts a distressed face, a look that a child that age should never have to wear. This engages the audience and enables us to feel what she was feeling, Stefania never wanted to leave her mother, but she had no choice. Her journey has been shaped by outside forces. Even though one can’t always control our journey, sometimes resilience through the tough times, will bring the positive out of a bad situation. Tim Winton’s Big World is a short story about two boys trying to take control of their journey, but it doesn’t always work in their favour. They seek to escape the town, and Winton uses rich imagery to portray the forces that cause the journey to begin. “And suddenly there we are, Biggie and me, heading to work every morning in a frigid wind in the January of our new lives, still in jeans and boots and flannel shirts, with beanies on our heads and the horizon around our ears.” The blood of the abattoir symbolises their sense of death of their dreams is they don’t escape. The vehicle for realising the dream of escape is the old VW that “shakes like a boiling billy” and, beyond their control, it is also the thing that
Everything in life can be related back to a journey - our character and ability to deal with situations will greatly influence the kind of people we will become. By studying the concept of a journey through a variety of texts, it is clear that it is the journey, not the destination that ultimately matters. The texts, Harvie Krumpet a Claymation short film by Adam Elliot, Stefania’s Dancing Slippers by Jennifer Beck and Lindy Fisher, and Tim Winton’s short story, Big World, reoccurring themes emerge with respect to life’s journeys. Among these are that a sojourner may experience lead to self-realisation and personal revelation, and sometimes, maturity. …show more content…
Other people around us contribute to our personal journey. This is shown in the text Harvie Krumpet, the use of irony when the doctor tells Harvie to smoke more cigarettes; only to have his condition worsen, this is an example that tells us that the doctor influenced his health in a negative way. This shows the audience that the people around us can have major impacts on our journeys, even the people that are expected to help us, often can cause worse damage. Throughout Harvie’s journey he has encountered many hardships, and many medical difficulties. Stefania’s Dancing Slippers explores a certain powerlessness in the face of events that arise on the journey. The use of salience when Stefania is separated from her mother depicts a distressed face, a look that a child that age should never have to wear. This engages the audience and enables us to feel what she was feeling, Stefania never wanted to leave her mother, but she had no choice. Her journey has been shaped by outside forces. Even though one can’t always control our journey, sometimes resilience through the tough times, will bring the positive out of a bad situation. Tim Winton’s Big World is a short story about two boys trying to take control of their journey, but it doesn’t always work in their favour. They seek to escape the town, and Winton uses rich imagery to portray the forces that cause the journey to begin. “And suddenly there we are, Biggie and me, heading to work every morning in a frigid wind in the January of our new lives, still in jeans and boots and flannel shirts, with beanies on our heads and the horizon around our ears.” The blood of the abattoir symbolises their sense of death of their dreams is they don’t escape. The vehicle for realising the dream of escape is the old VW that “shakes like a boiling billy” and, beyond their control, it is also the thing that