Self Discovery In Paperman By Michael Gow

Many composers use various techniques in which they communicate the distinctly visual. John Misto’s ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ and Alexander Kimel’s ‘The Action in the Ghetto of Rohatyn, March 1942’ represent significant issues in our world by using various literary and dramatic techniques. Through using these techniques it is evident that the composers of these texts allow the audience to ‘see’ with our eyes as well as with our minds. The many literary and dramatic techniques have the ability to create a visual that

Through studying and analyzing ‘Maestro’ ,written by Peter Goldsworthy, and by viewing and analyzing the film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ directed by Tim Burton, it is evident that the composers of these texts allow the audience to see distinctive experiences with our eyes as well as with our minds through distinctively visual. The many visual, written and literary techniques have the ability to create a significant and impacting visual.

I think the author provides such a detailed, step-by-step description of the paper’s movement to emphasize its importance. By describing the paper’s path along the building’s wall, the author is telling the reader just how keenly aware Tom is of the exponentially increasing distance between himself and the yellow paper.

As a result of Gwen’s upbringing in the depression, she consequently places a false value upon materialistic goods. At the night of the play, Gwen asks Meg “Why did you have to do Shakespeare for? We couldn’t see a blessed thing”. Through her dialogue in relation to the Shakespearean allusion, this displays that Gwen resists the emotional depth that Shakespeare represents, and that she is metaphorically blind. Once Gwen discovers the knowledge about Tom’s condition, she gains sight, and is no longer metaphorically blind to reality. Through her sight, she realizes that family is more important than placing a false value on materialistic goods. This idea of discovery has been explored through relationships and events which significantly impacted on her new found knowledge and sight.

In Michael Gow’s play ‘Away’, a story of families in the 1960’s and how they come to embrace each other’s differences through gaining self-knowledge. Through identifying the context of act 3 scene 2, as well as the relationships between characters and the reasons behind them, as well as the stylistic devices used by Gow to share a message with his audiences that, even today, an audience can relate too. By analysing quotes from the scene to support conclusions, the purpose of this scene will be identified and a greater understanding the theme of self-knowledge in this scene will be formed.

The ideals, attitudes, values, and beliefs of an individual are consistently altered by the discoveries uncovered in everyday life. Discoveries are confronting and provocative and engender renewed perceptions of individuals and others. The 1986 play ‘Away’, by Michael Gow highlights the retrospective revelations among three Australian families who are dislocated and brought together by a storm where they make new discoveries about themselves and others. Gow explored the significant themes of reconciliation, restoration, realisation, acceptance, and self-knowledge throughout the ‘Away'. William Ernest Henley’s 1888 poem, ‘Invictus’ explores the process self-discovery through the ability to portray courage in the face of death and to remain unconquered by indignities. Michael Gow’s play ‘Away’ in conjunction with William Henley's poem, ‘Invictus’ evidently portrays the fact that an individual and their perspectives can be modified by revelations present in their lives.

Michael Gow's play, "Away" expresses the idea of going through changes and receiving help from people around you. The key characters of the play experiences change and renewal as a result of their relationships with others ad the summer vacation. Coral and Gwen is two characters that undergo the most changes throughout the trip. Coral manage to moved on from her's son death while Gwen changed from a snobby person to a person who is more understandable. Tom is one of the critical character that help Coral and Gwen realised their issues and surpasses it. The play showed lives of people and their own struggle during the 60s and how they overcome it.

Through physical experiences an individual can begin to realise who they are and what they've become which can transcend into a personal discovery. To know your inner self is to know your purposes, values, visions, motivations, goals and beliefs. The short film, “Paperman” created by John Kahrs is about a lonely young man who lives in New York City, whose life takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on the train station that morning. Convinced the girl of his dreams is gone forever, he gets a second chance. However, the man seems to reject this mundane lifestyle and instead tries to gain the attention of the woman. Camera techniques are used for example; long shot is implied when the young male spots his love at the window, therefore destroying the boring cycle of his mundane life. Iconography is used to represent paper, an icon/symbol that formed the relationship to begin with. Another technique is the two person frame. The main significance of this particular camera technique is that not only is it the first shot type used, but also the

She will simply find joy through the recognition of her own positive attributes. This alone is a step towards independence because Jane was taught to feel as though she was not worthy of happiness for much of her life. Abandoning the mindset of unworthiness is a successful method of releasing herself from the grasp of Mrs. Reed. Jane is no longer dependent on negative assertions- Thus, exemplifying her freedom.

There are millions of different ways to see something; there are millions of perspectives. As the old saying goes, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change,” a change of perspective towards any object, person or event can alter an individual's understanding towards the whole world. In the novel, the Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway, Galloway demonstrates the idea that when individuals develop a new perspective, they often change their interpretation of the world, which results in new attitudes and actions. In the text, characters, Kenan, Dragan and Arrow’s, view of the world is drastically changed when they are placed in the war-torn streets of Sarajevo. A change of perspective in Arrow is what developed

The fact that the wallpaper as an object can be manipulated becomes key to the relationship of paper and the woman, and is key to the paper's capability to contribute to the narration. The character's interaction with the object is not limited to tactile experience, there is a form of reaction from the object's side. Change of the wallpaper's and the character's physical state happen in direct correlation to their interaction. For example, she is able to experience the structure and color of the paper, can influence its structure and integrity, and finds the paper's yellow color spread to her own skin and clothes in return (Gilman 1997: 1f). However, this interaction exceeds the physical level, and becomes more intense while the story

Discovery inhibits the ability to embrace new beginnings and accept a sense of change whether it is found or forced upon an individual. The places you travel and the people you meet can emotionally revolutionize a self-discovery through unexpected but anticipated terms evoked from curiosity. ‘Swallow The Air’ written by Tara June Winch and ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie break the inhibitions of vulnerability, as their ideas represented through cultural contexts and values, lead to an overall self-discovery.

In literature, authors use a certain image or collection of images in order to produce a particular effect, eliciting a response from the reader’s senses. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” utilizes the imagery of the train station in order to produce the effect of transition between the characters, both in terms of physical location and emotional mindset. Much like Hemingway, James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” takes a similar approach, using Sonny’s passion for music to expose his deepest insecurities. Though their approaches are different, both authors use imagery to create a pathway to the character’s internal thoughts.

The aim of this assignment is to present an exploration and explanation of the process of transformation in and through education. This will be shown by looking at some scenes from the films, Freedom Writers and To Sir with Love. To begin with I want to consider what we understand by ‘education’

The mood of the story shifted from nervous, anxious, hesitant even, to tense and secretive, and shifts again to paranoid and determination. Her anxiousness is evident whenever she talks to John. She always seems to think for lengthy time when attempting to express her concerns about her condition to him. The mood shift from anxious to secretive is clear when she writes “I had no intention of telling him it was BECAUSE of the wall-paper.” (9). She wants no one to figure out the affect the wallpaper has on her and she wants to be the only one to figure out its pattern. The final mood shift to determination is obvious when she writes “But I am here, and no person must touch this paper but me – not ALIVE!” (11). She is steadfast in attempting to free the woman from the wallpaper. She even goes as far as to lock herself in the room to make sure that she is not interrupted. The major conflicts of this story are the narrator versus John over the nature of her illness and its treatment and the narrator’s internal struggle to express herself and claim independence. During the entire story her and John’s views about her treatment conflict with each other, especially when it comes to her writing. He even makes her stay in the room upstairs instead of in a prettier room downstairs that she would prefer. She often keeps her views to herself or writes them down in