THE CONCEPT OF INNER JOURNEY TRAVELS THROUGH LITERATURE...
             Literature displays many concepts within a single story. The characters are real life people who we, as the audience can relate to. But why do we always engage into the characters life? Why do we want to know what happens next? Author/ composers use several techniques to send their characters on personal inner journeys. Making them learn life lessons from the experiences within the text. The thing which we really want to know is how the author presents the concept of inner journey to the audience through words. Whether in film or novel. The reader always wants to learn the experiences and lessons with the character. The inner journey always engages the audience way beyond the words. But, how is the question.
             Sally Morgan has incorporated several family members' stories including Arthur's, Glady's and Daisy's within the main structure of her personal story My Place, she joins a story within a story. This allows the individual to express different point of views through releasing their secrets and emotions concerning their aboriginality. By doing this the characters is taking the audience on their personal inner journey and reflecting the effect of their experiences through the remaining of sally's story, through the contrast in the attitudes to certain situations, especially their culture. Daisy the grandmother is the main person who experiences this inner journey through the use of her own story and sally's opinion of her. Within the first section of novel sally's tries to understand her "Nan's" feelings and attempted to persuade Nan to talk. However, she was not successful. Daisy (Nan) refused to speak. As the audience discovered she was mistreated at a young age and had no social position due to her aboriginality. She was a house maid to "White" Australians from a very young age and experienced horrific eve...