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"The Journey is the reward": Discuss the truth of this statement using the core text, with one piece of text from the BOS booklet together with two pieces of related material. All issues are to speak in relation to Sally Morgan's inner journey. The inner journey is a concept that has always been debated, and so has its meaning. The word ‘inner' has the alternative meaning of personal. Moreover, the word journey has an alternative meaning of movement. So, the concept of the inner journey, customarily, has the meaning of a personal movement. Inner journeys have often been described as the metaphor behind a physical journey. The statement ‘Journey is the reward' and the idea of a personal movement are depicted in the texts, My Place by …show more content…

Throughout the story the respondent is left wondering the reason behind the family's silence towards each other. This statement only reinforces the idea that the core text, My Place, clearly depicts how the journey is the reward. Sally Morgan uses a wide range of different techniques to convey her physical and internal movement to disclose her family heritage and her own identity. The book itself is structured in a completely original format. Sally has managed to make her story stand out by separating each individual story, thus, the book is separated into her own story, her Uncle Arthur's story, her mother's story and finally, her grandmother's story. It must be noted that inner journeys are plagued with choices, and this is a truth and reality that no one can escape. As Robert Frost says in ‘The Road Not Taken', ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.' In Sally's quest for information, she met a lady called ‘Elsie' who gave her a great depth and insight into her Grandmother and the past. In Sally's mind, her journey was definitely rewarded and this made her feel ‘full inside'. Sally's mother, Gladys, had also found an new sense of fulfillment which completed her as a whole, because she was previously only ‘half a person'. For Sally, it was her determination and ‘stubborn' nature which meant that she was rewarded, because in her heart she realized that unless the family went on such an epic journey ‘we never would have known our place'.

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