Related Text About Changing Life

'How has your study of Attitudes and Experiences as well as 2 related texts helped you to better understand the Area of Study, 'Changing Lives?'

The Area of Study ‘Changing Lives’ has developed and enhanced my understanding as it shows that Change can bring about important lessons related to overcoming challenges and obstacles, the importance of maintaining will and determination through drastic changes and that a negative change can being about a positive outcome. This was shown through the use of plot, language and film techniques, characters, and context. This is evident in the set text Attitudes and Experiences edited by Deb McPherson the short stories ‘Topic of Cancer’ and ‘Fatal Storm’ as well as supplementary texts 'Guy Sebastian's
The young girl Samantha went from being in her second year in university to being diagnosed with Leukaemia and getting told that “I was given three weeks to live.” However after this severe incident things just unexpectedly changed Samantha went from becoming the sickest person around to miraculously recovering from Leukaemia, and from then on become a 'modern miracle'. Samantha had no financial worries, published a book at her age, became a minor celebrity and got a 'real grown up job' in publishing however despite of all the positive feedback her mind was set on the negative. As seen as a positive by many, felt like a negative for Samantha, being sick had become her comfort zone and she panicked when she noticed that she was becoming better. The disease created a strain on her life as she was faced to deal with its repercussions; being forced to leave her social life, university and her independence this meant having to start her life all over again. “‘Getting better’ forced me to re-evaluate everything I'd ever believed in and plunged me into despair I could hardly
Fatal Storm is an account of the event that happened in 1998 where a Sydney to Hobart yacht race was taken place; it focuses on Tom Campbell and his experience. As the one of the crews is sailing the yacht a life changing tragic event occurs to one of them John Campbell, it all started with the sprinkling of rain got them worried of what could be leading to the next, and what they were afraid of occurring just occurred, an enormous wave thundered in, swamping the yacht and rolling it over. However after five seconds the boat rapidly flipped back to its natural self, although this damaged the yacht and this inflicted the crew’s chance of survival and their chance of winning the race. Peter Meikle one of the crew members noticed that two of the members were on the verge of failing of the yacht and needed help, Peter noticed that Tom needed the most help. Peter had the courage and will to go out there and save him and emotive words were used to emphasise that “Meikle knew he had to get Campbell”. Tom was facing a near death experience as he went unconscious, and ‘To out horror- and I will never forgot the feeling-the jacket started to turn inside out and he just slipped out the bottom of it,’ recalled by Meikle. From this