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The nature of discovery is highly impactful when one is confronted with multiple worlds; enabling a physical and spiritual connection to places, ideals and society, transforming one’s perception over-time. Australian poet Robert Gray‘s ‘The Meatworks’, confronts an individual’s beliefs to influence their standpoint on a desensitized society. ‘Journey, North Coast’ introduces the idea that re-awakened realities emancipate one’s connection of the natural world. and Director Daniel Sousa’s ‘Feral’ explores into how being taken into an unfamiliar reality leads to discovering one’s natural world. It is within these poems that uncover the highly impactful nature of discovery.

While at a movie theater, Dally is antagonizing and annoying several Soc girls. Johnny stands up to Dally, his hero, and states, “‘Leave her alone, Dally.’ ‘Huh?’ Dally was taken off guard. He stared at Johnny in disbelief. Johnny couldn't say ‘Boo’ to a goose. Johnny gulped and got a little pale, but he said, ‘You heard me. Leave her alone’” (24). It took all of Johnny’s bravery to stand up to his absolute idol. He was willing to stand up to a dangerous boy that could easily defeat him in a fight, to save others. Not only this, but when a church is burning down with children inside, Ponyboy states, ”Johnny wasn't behaving at all like his old self. ... he grinned at me. He wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92). Johnny gives his own life for kids who have futures. He charges into the church at full speed when necessary. Johnny becomes brave in the middle of the

He saw one of his attackers and targeted him. When the text states “I knew Johnny recognized them; he was watching the moonlight glint off Bob’s rings with huge eyes”(Hinton 55).It becomes clear that he saw who Bob was and the fact that he was the one who attacked Johnny before he was just a target for that knife. From this it is clear that he was targeting Bob directly.

Firstly, Johnny has the thought of killing himself. This can be seen when Johnny says, “’I can’t take it much more.’ Johnny spoke my own feelings. ‘I’ll kill myself or something.’” (59). Possibly, Johnny feels this way because he has been abused by his parents and the Socs. Johnny’s dad abuses Johnny physically; meanwhile, Johnny’s mom ignores Johnny like he is not visible. On the other hand, the Socs attacked Johnny causing him to lie on the ground like a dead body. Johnny stayed in a hurtful position until his gang came to rescue him.

Everyone has a courageous moment in their life, but Johnny has multiple moments where he shows a true act of courage. The first event that shows that Johnny is courageous is when he saved Ponyboy from the Socs. There has been this rivalry between the Socs and the Greasers (the rich and the poor) which has caused a lot of fights. When Johnny’s best friend Ponyboy and him were in the park they were jumped by Bob and his group of Socs. They were drowning Ponyboy in the fountain and Johnny decided to take a courageous action and stab Bob to save Ponyboy. If it was not for Johnny, Ponyboy would be dead. Johnny knew that stabbing Bob would get him in trouble with the police, but he took the chance. “ You really killed him, huh, Johnny ?...

Embers flew from the campfire, and into the starry night sky; meanwhile, the campers, Jackie, Carl, and Jim, sat close to it for warmth. “Now who's ready for a campfire story?” said Jackie. “You can sometimes go a little overboard, so Carl is taking the wheel.” Carl continued, “Once upon a time” Jim screams, and Carl rolls his eyes at Jim, “May I proceed,” He responds rhetorically. By the time Carl finishes the scary story, Jim has already dashed into the tent, startling his dog, a basset hound named Roxy. Carl along with Jackie look at each other in regretful worry, as they walk towards Jim's tent.

After Johnny’s fight with the Socs in the park he utters, “‘I killed that boy … I had to’” (57). This is Johnny’s worst nightmare, he could never imagine being beat up by the Socs again. Johnny never stands up to others but it seems like second nature for him to save one of his “brothers”. While Johnny is in the hospital he exclaims, “Listen, I don't mind dying now. It's worth it.

Maycomb County has been living a few dynamic days, as it not only snowed yesterday, but also today at approximately 2 in the morning a tremendous fire burnt the house of Maudie Atkinson to the ground. Even though the cause of the fire has not been confirmed yet, it is highly believed that it was due to the flue in her kitchen. Since it had not snowed since 1885, the people in town were not prepared. The fire truck was killed by the extreme weather and it took plenty of time for it to arrive to the scene, but fortunately it arrived in time to prevent the fire from spreading to other houses in the neighborhood. The commotion among everyone was clearly perceived.

For instance, after finding out what happened to the church, Ponyboy says to Johnny, “‘I bet we started it,’ I said to Johnny. ‘We must have dropped a lighted cigarette or something”’(Hinton 91). In other words Ponyboy explains to Johnny that he thinks they started it when they were smoking cigarettes. Therefore Ponyboy influenced Johnny to save the children by telling him that they might have started the fire so afterwards they would run in. Likewise, when Ponyboy ran in to save the children stuck inside, he said, “‘I looked around startled. I hadn't realized Johnny had been right behind me”’(Hinton 92). Ponyboy finds out that Johnny went into the burning church right after him. As a result, some could say that Johnny was influenced to go into the burning church because Ponyboy went in first and thus Johnny also felt responsible for what was happening in there. Given these points, the quotes can in many ways explain how Johnny’s final actions were influenced by one of the gang member to go into the burning church, that one being of course

First of all, Johnny is firm and doesn't back down. Johnny defended Cherry and Marcia when Dally was messing around with them. The text states, “Leave her alone Dally”(page 22). This explains why Johnny is from, he did not back down even though, he was scared of Dally. In addition, Everyone was surprised of what Johnny did, and that made him feel good.

The second reason Johnny should not go to the lytes is Johnny was given a place to live. Rab gave him a place to live, work and his friendship. Rab didn’t make fun

“‘Come on, Johnny, we're running away.’” Johnny already has a lot of stress and grief, and will break like he did in the

"Tommy, leave Jared alone." The voice said. When Jared and Tommy turn around, they see Johnny a kid Jared and Tommy both saw in the halls but never really knew. Jared looked at Johnny silently trying to tell him to run while he can.

“Whoa... hey man. That's okay their buddy.” he said. “You just keep that truffle all to yourself, okay man. Oh, and hey, V.Q. I'm not quite sure that this is the vision you've been looking for.” Lovienthal added with a smirk now beginning to grow from the corners of his mouth.

By nature discoveries are intensely profound, they possess the inevitable capacity to shape the understandings we have of ourselves and our notions on the world encompassing us. They can often be confronting but aid us to see the truthfulness of the world and ourselves through an emotional and spiritual way. Robert Gray’s poem ‘The Meatworks’ explores the discovery of the distaste and innate ambition rooted in modern society for money and industry through poetic techniques. Similarly, ‘Flames and Dangling wire’ incorporates poetic techniques to examine the vicarious discover by the persona of where our desire can lead us. Likewise, ‘This is Normal’ is a short film by Justin Giddings and Ryan Welsh examines the realizations of Gwen’s as her desires renewed the perceptions of herself and society.