Discovery And The Motorcycle Discovery

Context influences how an individual invests themselves into discovery, and how transformative it may be, based upon their presence or absence of agency. The notion that discoveries have the power to be transformative because of the way they confront/challenge established assumptions and beliefs in a way prompts new understandings and insights. Che Guevara's memoir "The Motorcycle Diaries", published in 1993, recounts his discovery of the injustices of social and political inequality within his cultural context of Latin America in the mid 20th century. J C's late Victorian novella HOD shares G's discovery of inequality and injustice, because f the differing historical contexts, Conrad is unable to discover the power of political activism and

Laozi, an Asian philosopher, described water in his philosophy, Daoism, “If you want to be successful, be as pliable and yielding as water; so as to stay close to reality. If you want to be powerful, be as focused as water, it can penetrate a rock. This is Dao.” In Lê Thi Diem Thúy’s novel The Gangster We Are All Looking For, water serves as a metaphor for mobility. Unlike Dao, the people in the novel do not recognize water with success, and in contrast, escape reality rather than staying close to it. The complexities of a country and its people struggling to maintain their agency against the consequences of war are highlighted through the experiences of a young girl. The contemporary refugee text uses movement as a desire for stability, and therefore a yearning for recognition of an identity. However, the narrator’s struggle for this recognition implies that there’s an uncomfortable feeling with mobility. Her obstacles include the loss of home in both countries, the vagueness of her childhood memories, and the inability to associate herself as a member of a country. The narrator is neither here, nor there. This confusion and inability to identify is the result of the silence perpetuated upon her by her parents.

We can refer to the documentary “The man who saw too much” as a primary way to seek a better understanding of what this culture has hidden within its scars. The documentary which was Directed

In the 1900’s there were four Davidson brothers named Arthur, Walter and William and William Harley. Their goal was to create something that could help them travel from place to place in a timely manner. They started working in the back of their home garage, gathering supplies and brainstorming. It took them over three years to come up with a design for a motorcycle. The first carburetor was made from a tomato can, and the spark plugs were the size of a doorknob. By 1903, they had created a bicycle crank which was a bicycle that had one cylinder, motor, attached onto a bicycle. In order to start the motorcycle, one would pedal the bicycle to achieve full compression which would start the engine. Once the engine began running, one would no

Turning points occur throughout the documentary affecting each character differently at varying degrees. Raye’s emotional and intellectual journey quickly caused a humanising revelation, leading audiences to recognise the true circumstances and difficulties refugees face. Captured in a close-up video style confession Raye reveals “I do understand, where she is coming from” a teary response to the Masudi’s losing a child due to inadequate resources a common ground of despair. However not all journeys are so catalytic, Raquel’s experiences consisted of negative connotations such as “no”, “ I can’t” and “I won’t" symbolising the many difficulties inherent in the discovery process. However, when Raquel is physically visiting Kenya’s refugee camp and meeting the other half of the Masudi family shot through panoramas of barren landscapes convey the depth of Raquel’s new self –awareness typified in her final summative idiom “People shouldn’t judge a book by its cover”. Therefore the composer proves that the gaining of knowledge through a shared experience triggers a series of epiphanies that lead to significant intellectual and emotional growth for both the individual and society as a whole.

As a viewer, the documentary’s intention to inform is more completely fulfilled by research conducted beyond the scope of the camera lens. Had I never written this paper, for instance, the reason for all the violence embedded within the subject matter would remain as enigmatic as the documentary itself.

An individual’s discovery is transformative on their perceptions of the world. This is the case for the book ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Keats’s sonnet “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer”. In this book, we are taken on Che’s journey as he travels Latin America as a young man, before the fame. His diary entries lead the reader into his own eyes, as a typical young man on an adventure, not the revolutionary figure we all associate him with. Through his descriptive entries of the landscape he journeys across, we discover his deeper connection to the land of South America and the love he has for its people. As well as the beautiful things that South America has to

Thesis: In the documentary “Scared Sacred”, the director Velcrow Ripper demonstrated that hope can be found in the darkest places and times. Using unique filming techniques he is able to let us into these people's lives, showing us the brutal reality these people go through everyday, and how they cope with it.

The Motorcycle Diaries follows Ernesto Che Guevera’s and his friend, Alberto Granado’s, excursions through Latin American in the year 1952. Ernesto, a medical student, and Alberto, a biochemist, intent was to see the San Pablo Leper Colony in Peru. Alberto, being the one professionally interested in the Colony. However, these intentions changed as the encountered countless oppressed members of Latin American societies. These encounters not only changed Erensto’s political views, but redirected his entire career path.

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” - Mary Shelley. No one is able to control what happens to them, but everyone can choose what they do as a result. Sudden changes put aspects of people’s lives at risk, any decision made afterward is a critical one. The memoir I chose, Intolerable by Kamal Al - Solaylee tells a moving story of how changes in Kamal’s life lead him on a journey to flee the Middle East. A journey that would make the best of his life, after it was heading towards oppression.

A particular scene involving Guevara's asthma, occurs on his birthday. When he decided to spend the remainder of his birthday with the lepers on their colony, instead of spending it with uninfected people on the boat as they throw a party for him. He suddenly decides jumps of the boat and crosses one of the largest rivers in the world. Even while his friends warn him about factors such as, the current and his asthma. He still decides to continue on to meet with the leper colony.

The creation of a documentary is a fine balance. One must be cognisant not to have misconstruing messages within the film, while still not trivializing those very same messages. It must strive to present its case with as little bias as possible. Moreover, that message must succeed in reaching the audience. With this in mind, Andrew Morgan succeeds in being a skilled documentary filmmaker with The True Cost; a documentary with hard hitting commercial implications, social/political implications and manages persuades the audience using facts and figures to its advantage.

Throughout the film there are many moments where the ethics we hold to be true today in our society are tested in the tribal settings. The film, originally meant to be a comment on ecological changes in the mid-20th century, sparks filmgoers minds on the question of what ethics they hold to be true to themselves and how true those ethics are to others.

In Danny Boyle’s film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, a vast range of effective film techniques are used to communicate not only transitions and character traits/personalities, but also the ideas of how power can corrupt individuals, and how ideas can be communicated, such as how ambition can enhance an individual, or be the reason for their downfall, and how our past informs our future; our outcome in life is determined by where we’ve come from. They are able to visualise this with the three main characters. The protagonist Jamal, the antagonist Salim and Latika.

In The Motorcycle Diaries, Guevara’s discoveries of the devastating effects of US neo-colonialism in Latin America are only fully understood upon his rediscoveries of the equally harmful nature of not only tourism, but also his own vagabond traveling. Through their encounters with farm labourers, Guevara’s initial discovery of the Araucanian race’s “deep suspicion of the white man who… now continues to exploit them” is shown through the prominent motif of sharing mate, which highlights the early understanding between them. However, this understanding is expanded upon reaching Cuzco, where the symbolic juxtaposition of the three layers of the city emphasises his reassessment of how “a hesitant tourist [also] pass[es] over things superficially”. Even further, in Guevara’s encounter with the Chilean communist couple, graphic imagery accentuates his rediscovery of the “parasitic nature” of not