JOURNEY,CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE
Our unit of study Journey: Challenge and Response, focussing on the book 'Maestro' and the film 'Stand By Me' has helped me to discover a variety of new insights into the topic of journey and to learn more about the different types of journeys, their outcomes and consequences. I have also discovered a number of other resources that contain aspects of journey including the well-known book series, 'The Tomorrow Series' by John Marsden as well as the book/film 'Sleepers' by Lorenzo Carcaterra.In the dictionary journey is defined as the act or process of travelling from one place to another. After studying these different stories on journey I can see that a journey is not only travelling, it is not just getting from point A to point B. It is about what you take with you along that journey, and what you get out of it, physically, emotionally and mentally. It is the ups of and downs in life portrayed through a possible adventure or the like. There is no one journey the same and each carries different challenges along the way with different obstacles needing to be conquered in an effort to reach the end of the journey. 'Maestro' is a journey through the life of an unpleasant but extremely talented piano teacher and his gifted studen
This adventure enabled them to escape their home lives. I have discovered that 'Stand By Me' is about a journey carried out by four young boys. They lost friends along the way, they lost family members but they still never lost their will to survive and beat the war. It leads to Paul becoming older and learning more about life under the guidance of Keller and in turn, Keller learning about life from Paul even though this contrary to what he might think. This was their response to a big challenge that they faced. A response is how the person involved answers the challenge, by either overcoming the challenge or succumbing to it. This journey was extremely difficult to face, there were so many challenges but the teenagers managed to conquer each challenge with a suitable response. 'Stand by Me' is a film telling of four boys on a journey to discover a dead body, amongst other things. They were a lot more challenging and called for more willpower, strength and determination to respond to them. The time spent in the reform school changed their lives for the worse, forever. 'Sleepers' is a journey that four young boys experienced, commencing the day they were sent to a reform school for accidentally killing a man whilst pulling a prank on a hotdog vendor. They were in the middle of a war zone fighting the enemy to stay alive and remain in hiding whilst pining for their friends and family who were captured by the soldiers. Every journey has challenges and therefore responses by the people involved. It finally sunk in - it was a dead child, a kid the same age as them.
Common topics in this essay:
Mozart Paul's,
Tomorrow Series',
Lorenzo Carcaterra,
Challenge Response,
Keller Keller,
Adolf Hitler,
Herr Keller,
reform school,
'stand me',
Paul Crabbe,
John Marsden,
'the tomorrow,
journey life,
tomorrow series',
Liszt Rachmaninoff,
'the tomorrow series',
film 'stand me',
film 'stand,
school accidentally killing,
challenge faced,
school accidentally,
accidentally killing,
stories journey,
sent reform school,
middle war zone,
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