Discuss how various composers have explored the concept of journeys throughout their texts.
             Journeys can be enjoyably adventurous, or traumatic and stressful. A journey can be a reflection of life or a walk to the general store to buy the newspaper. They can either be physical, inner or imaginative. Physical journeys create challenges as people travel to new places. Inner journeys create opportunities for people to develop and examine their inner lives. Imaginative journeys allow us to enter different worlds created by the imaginations of others or ourselves. These journeys are all established in Mark Twains novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Phillip Noyce's Film Rabbit Proof Fence and the Board of Studies Text The Ivory Trail. These various composers have all presented journeys that are challenging and involve life- changing events.
             The central idea of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the physical exploration of the new worlds down the river and the emotional experiences to be encountered. The physical journey within the novel represents the idea of life itself as an adventure, full of challenges for the young. The youngest character within the novel namely Huckleberry Finn evokes and mirrors qualities of a sense of new life, full of challenging experiences. The story line of the novel is notably simple; the plot development is linear and episodic. This is shown through each event occurring one after the other, for example, Huck leaving his 'sivilised' life and living with his horrific father which then leads to him running away. All these episodes provide many opportunities for Huck to engage his appetite for adventure, which brings great significance to the events. The journey within this novel is of course Huck's as we see the world through his eyes. Twain shows this through the use of first person narrative, the language of a nieve, uneducated boy 'aint low down ...