Discovery Essay 1 - Area of study - discovery.
Tim Winton explores personal discoveries of guilt through the narrators of both short stories. Both stories share similar traits, their main characters reflect on the past to discover their personal guilt. The narrator of Big World plans a road trip to escape from his home town and his failed final high school exams.Gran Torino directed by Clint Eastwood as the prescribed text and Big World by Tim Winton as the related text. A characters journey will be described from each of these to help support the thesis. Answering questions about each characters journey and what events took place to get there. Describing techniques as well as ways the.Tim Winton’s short story Big World is also a story of a boy’s rite of passage. Both texts explore the personal cost of their protagonists’ discoveries as they must endure great suffering, isolation and the loss of innocence in order to discover themselves and their place in the big picture of life.
English Speech: How would you feel if your mother had to clean other people’s houses to make a living? How far would you really go for a friend, would you sacrifice a love life, your education? Out of all the books I have read, I absolutely love Tim Winton’s short stories, 2 short stories that I loved are “On Her knees” and “Big World”.The story ends with Lang and Marie laying either side of the injured hiker in an attempt to keep him warm. Lang lies there, predicting the outcome of the situation. He plans to set up Marie’s camera so that the flash goes of intermittently once the fog clears to lead the search.
Tim Winton’s “Big World” and “Aquifer”, short stories from his anthology, The Turning, and Lasse Hallstrom’s What’s Eating Gilbert Grape illustrate that individuals learn from their mistakes and personal discoveries over time.
