The Concept Of Discovery In Rainbows's End By Jane Harrison's Rainbows End

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.

The story “Folie a Deux” by William Trevor explores the complexities of curiosity and maturation. The narrator, inspired by literary devices, details an important passage of the story, which portrays lunchtime conversations between Anthony, his father, and Miss Davally, and follows with the correspondence between Miss Davally and Wilby’s mother – where all involve the exchange of information. The passage is meaningful because it demonstrates an appraisal of information, and its impact on progress. Ultimately, the story suggests that information is arbitrarily powerful, and that genuine maturation is only fostered through nurtured curiosity.

As a result of discovery, individuals are opened to the opportunity to transform and in doing so, renew perceptions of themselves and those around them. In having renewed perceptions, individuals are automatically exposed to new experiences and perspectives, and as a result undergo personal growth. Change is an aspect of discovery that is enabled by past experiences and in this, transformation is achieved. Through Jane Harrison’s Rainbow’s End, a 1950’s play about three generations of an Aboriginal family, and Gwen Harwood’s Father and Child, a poem exploring the transformation of a child we are able to explore the way change is inflicted through experiences of discovery and the responses we find as a result of this. Maturation and

The challenging process of discovery vital for individuals to experience meaningful discovery and ultimately transform their present beliefs and perspectives. In Rainbow’s end, Gladys yearns to belong in the western community to have a successful future for her family especially her daughter Dolly. However, gladys transforms her desire after facing prejudice by the white Australians at the Queen’s visit in 1954. Harrison promotes Gladys’ aspirations of a big dream of desiring to assimilate in the western society through the dream sequence where Gladys presents a bouquet of flowers to the Queen. However, the audience realises the unachieved wish when in reality, Gladys is ‘Holding a bunch of weeds’. The provocative confrontation if further highlighted after she discovers the government’s truth after her visit

The process of discovery refers to the perception created upon experiencing the unfamiliar and redefining what is familiar. Discovery can be achieved through unexpected means or deliberate expeditionary, whether it be tangible or a fragment of our thoughts/imagination/emotions. Poems ‘The Tiger’ and ‘Young Girl At A Window’ by Rosemary Dobson and poem ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley thoroughly explore this concept via their ideology of human nature and its effect on discovery.

Discovery allows main characters to gain sight or knowledge into themselves and others. This is evident in Michael Gow’s Away, as seen through the characters of Gwen, Coral and Tom. The three gain sight and knowledge into their lives through the different perceptions and ideas of discovery. Similarly, in The Book Thief, Liesel gains sight and knowledge into the world around her, with the help of books which allow her to become educated about the immoral acts that are

The term ‘discovery’ can be explored and interpreted in many different ways, the meaning is created by an individual’s perception, opinion and experiences of discovery. In the book Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch and the film, Titanic by James Cameron explores the concept of discovery as an idea that discoveries can be challenging as they allow for the transformation of an individual’s perspective, and they allow for an individual to discover their true identity and the identity of others around them.

Discovery is the process by which our lives are enriched, a discovery is a transformative process that influences the values and perceptions of an individual, group or even the world, it is through discovery that we grow and begin to view our lives in a new way. Both Rainbows end written by Jane Harrison and Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Phillip Noyce both support this statement through many techniques such as Flashbacks, Camera Angles, Music, Foreshadowing and Literary Techniques. This is displayed mainly though the characters Nan Dear from Rainbows End and Molly Craig from the Rabbit Proof Fence, both of these characters make the most powerful transformative discoveries as they already had set opinions from the beginning.

“The best among [the scientists] move deep into a wilderness region where they know almost nothing, where the very tools and techniques needed to clear the wilderness, to bring order to it, do not exist” (25-29). By referencing the need “to clear the wilderness”, Barry conjures an image of a lumberjack, who heroically conquers the wilderness to nurture the advent of civilization. In a similar manner, he claims that scientists wield axes to chop away the foliage that obscure scientific discoveries opening the gateways for unparalleled growth and innovation. Moreover, Barry continues his claim by asserting that“If the researcher succeeds, a flood of colleagues will pave roads over the path laid, and those roads will be orderly and straight, taking an investigator in minutes to a place the pioneer spent months or years looking for” (Barry 49-53). Following the back-breaking labor of clearing forests, Barry muses how the “flood” of subsequent scientists lay down the bricks to form a continuous road that civilizes and tames the unknown. In addition, Barry channels the immense power of “floods” and bestows it upon scientists; this evokes the notion that scientists possess power of equal magnitude, when well-harnessed, can transform and innovate scientific research. Thus, by utilizing metaphors as a vessel to grant powers to

The first example of a discovery is where characters discover new visions into their relationships and the changes to their relationships. They both find out details about one another in both texts as they progress throughout the course of the texts. In stand by me they find out more about each other as there trip got longer, they established a bond between one another like no other, by the end of the film they know each other. The author used emotions to bring the message to the readers mind. Whereas in away is was about the family bonding and going way, every Christmas meant the family worked together and sat

One of the strengths that Gladys she wants a better life for her three daughters. She is aware that she is raising her three young girls in an abusive environment and is seeking help.

The process of discovery occurs when individual encounter challenges or problems and through the experiences of adversity they acquire their real identity. Jane Harrison’s play, Rainbow’s End, June Winch’s novel, Swallow the air, and the carton Seashell, by Michael Leunig are the three texts exemplifies how the process of discovery can be confronting and provocative and leads to transformation.

Discovery is an innate aspect of what it means to be human. Discovery involves differing contexts and perspectives and in this way it is unavoidably subjective and offers further insights into the human psyche. This can be seen in the 1914 works of Robert Frost, “Home Burial” that tells of the hardship imposed on a mother and father after the loss of a child, and “Mending Wall” exploring the relationship between two neighbours and the wall that divides them, as well as the 1998 picture book, ‘The Rabbits’ by Shaun Tan and John Marsden, an account of colonisation from the viewpoint of the colonised.

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.

The learning situation thus becomes a means of discovery as the child encounters something that is unknown, new, or problematical for the child. The achievement of understanding of this experiences produces an adaptation, and each adaptation made by the child is a discovery for him or her, an insight made through experience. Such a discovery process is ongoing and is not to be seen as a series of leaps from one insight to another. The process of discovery continues and builds on experiences already assimilated and adapted. The process "is marked out by minute consolidations and extensions of past experience, with perhaps an occasional flash of insight" (Flavell, 1963, 91-92).