Every single human being on the planet undertakes a series of journeys
             throughout their life, people constantly have physical, imaginative and
             inner journeys until the day they die. These journeys are the basis of
             human experience in this world and are inevitable, as in every new
             situation a journey starts. A journey changes people, as they imagine,
             physically travel or begin to understand and get in touch with themselves
             in an inner journey. People learn from journeys, become enlightened and
             are forever changed, truly something to be relished, however the
             outcomes are not always positive, self discovery can reveal darker sides
             of peoples psychology. The film "Life is Beautiful", by Roberto Benigni,
             which is a tragic comedy about a Jewish family living in Italy who are
             sent to a nazi death camp, has a variety of characters envolved in a series
             of journeys. The main characters, especially Guido and his wife Dora,
             embark on a series of life improving journeys which inevitably lead them
             into other journeys, and during his time in the German death camp Guido
             and his son Giosue embark on an inner and imaginative journey to deal
             with the horror they have to face and prevail. The extract of Shirley
             Geok-Lin Lim's "The Town Where Time Stands Still" provided in the
             HSC stimulus booklet is an assertion on the nature of travelers who want
             to experience new environments to spiritually grow, it describes travel to
             new places as a way in which people unconsciously desire to stimulate
             an inner journey which inevitably follow physical travel, which would
             leave them with a better understanding of the self and of the world. H.G.
             Well's short story "The Red Room" places the protagonist in a situation
             where inner journey is inevitable, as he seeks out the ghost who is said to
             reside in the red room of Lorraine castle he is forced to deal with his own
             naked fear, w...