Guitar Highway Rose Critical Essay
Select a character from Brigid Lowry’s Guitar Highway Rose and, based upon evidence from the txt, the lesson that we, as readers, learn from their journey.
Introduction
Brigid Lowry’s novella, ‘Guitar Highway rose’ is based on two teenagers that decide to run away on a journey up the coast of Australia, freedom is the key exploration for their disappearance. The purpose of this essay is to gain information on what we have learnt from this novel, Asher’s Journey. The way, in which Lowry has written the story is quite creative, she allows the readers to jump inside the characters’ heads by using both stream of consciousness and interior monologue. For instants there is a section in the novel on page 99 were she used these techniques so that we can see how Rosie (interior monologue) and Asher (stream of consciousness) are responding to the situation on the bus after they have changes their hair to a different colour.
Relationships
There are many relationships in the novel such as the one between Asher and Rosie. Asher and Rosie have fallen in love with each other and become really good friends. They relate to each other and tell each other about the issues that they are going through. Rosie and her mother is another relationship. They have fallen apart and barely communicate with each other anymore. They argue and fight and never agree on anything. Lily feels like after seeing the psychologist that she and Rosie are getting closer. We as readers can understand from reading the novel that the more time you actually spend with your friends the better the relationship will get, a good relationship is usually quite slow just like Asher and Rosies.
As readers we learn and gain a lot of knowledge about friendships and how they can affect people’s life’s. People can change. No matter what you're like right now, you always have the ability to choose a different path. This might mean that you improve on negative traits or change them completely.
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Introduction
Brigid Lowry’s novella, ‘Guitar Highway rose’ is based on two teenagers that decide to run away on a journey up the coast of Australia, freedom is the key exploration for their disappearance. The purpose of this essay is to gain information on what we have learnt from this novel, Asher’s Journey. The way, in which Lowry has written the story is quite creative, she allows the readers to jump inside the characters’ heads by using both stream of consciousness and interior monologue. For instants there is a section in the novel on page 99 were she used these techniques so that we can see how Rosie (interior monologue) and Asher (stream of consciousness) are responding to the situation on the bus after they have changes their hair to a different colour.
Relationships
There are many relationships in the novel such as the one between Asher and Rosie. Asher and Rosie have fallen in love with each other and become really good friends. They relate to each other and tell each other about the issues that they are going through. Rosie and her mother is another relationship. They have fallen apart and barely communicate with each other anymore. They argue and fight and never agree on anything. Lily feels like after seeing the psychologist that she and Rosie are getting closer. We as readers can understand from reading the novel that the more time you actually spend with your friends the better the relationship will get, a good relationship is usually quite slow just like Asher and Rosies.
As readers we learn and gain a lot of knowledge about friendships and how they can affect people’s life’s. People can change. No matter what you're like right now, you always have the ability to choose a different path. This might mean that you improve on negative traits or change them completely.
If someone wants to