Expository Essay: Go Back To Where You Came From
Expository essay
What do we doooooo??
‘We don’t know our values until they’re put to the test’
Throughout life people develop or adopt various values and belief systems and these values change and also change the person. However, it often isn’t until we experience a test, that we know what we stand for. This essay will use the various characters out of ‘Montana 1948’, ‘Go Back to Where You Came From,’ and the poets out of Def. Poetry Jam, to analyse and discuss the prompt and the issues it brings up.
We usually get our values from our parents but not always. They teach us from a young age not to do a lot of things, we learn from their mistakes as they have. For example we might learn Not to smoke, not to swear, not to lie and these rules are things our parents value for our safety. David in the text ‘Montana 1948’ got his values from his father Wesley. Wesley valued the law, this value was passed on to David, and this was shown when he started to hate his Uncle Frank due to the acts of violence he partook in his community. Raquel from the T.V. show ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ possibly got her racist …show more content…
feelings from her parents. She said some bad comments like ‘I guess I’m a racist…my dad was a racist.’ Despite the fact that we get our values from our parents, this doesn’t mean those values will be sound, and it doesn’t mean our values will not change.
A change in values depends on a major catalyst or experience.
In ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ a character named Rae was saying things like ‘serves the bastards right!’ about asylum seekers being locked up. But once she went through what those people went through, her outlook on the issue changed. At the end of the show she was saying things like ‘people look, but don’t see. They don’t know what’s really happening’ and ‘I felt guilty, leaving those beautiful people back there with no help.’ This experience was strong enough to changes Rae’s values about asylum seekers. But different people will have different reactions to similar experiences. Darren still views boat people as ‘economic refugees.’ And his values are still the same. People’s values change because nobody is the same and maybe the experience is the same they may interpret it
differently.
To determine our values we must take the time to think about them and it takes a lot of work. The poets in general all take the time to think about their values and write a great poem which grasps the audience’s attention. I myself value a lot of things, friends, family, my education and more. These things are valued because they mean something to me. I want to keep my friends forever because they are there for you when you need them and I am there to help them as well. Family, because they give great emotional support and advice on life and I can learn from their mistakes. And my education, this is important to me because without this I’m going nowhere, work at Kmart for the rest of my life. We must continuously think about our values, in order to keep up with their changing nature.
It is true. We don’t always know our values until they are put to the test. Though I think there is a misconception that when people with unsound values have the potential to change. And as we learn from the characters of Rae, this is not always the case. Sometimes, catalysts just serve to reinforce what people already believe.
What do we doooooo??
‘We don’t know our values until they’re put to the test’
Throughout life people develop or adopt various values and belief systems and these values change and also change the person. However, it often isn’t until we experience a test, that we know what we stand for. This essay will use the various characters out of ‘Montana 1948’, ‘Go Back to Where You Came From,’ and the poets out of Def. Poetry Jam, to analyse and discuss the prompt and the issues it brings up.
We usually get our values from our parents but not always. They teach us from a young age not to do a lot of things, we learn from their mistakes as they have. For example we might learn Not to smoke, not to swear, not to lie and these rules are things our parents value for our safety. David in the text ‘Montana 1948’ got his values from his father Wesley. Wesley valued the law, this value was passed on to David, and this was shown when he started to hate his Uncle Frank due to the acts of violence he partook in his community. Raquel from the T.V. show ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ possibly got her racist …show more content…
feelings from her parents. She said some bad comments like ‘I guess I’m a racist…my dad was a racist.’ Despite the fact that we get our values from our parents, this doesn’t mean those values will be sound, and it doesn’t mean our values will not change.
A change in values depends on a major catalyst or experience.
In ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ a character named Rae was saying things like ‘serves the bastards right!’ about asylum seekers being locked up. But once she went through what those people went through, her outlook on the issue changed. At the end of the show she was saying things like ‘people look, but don’t see. They don’t know what’s really happening’ and ‘I felt guilty, leaving those beautiful people back there with no help.’ This experience was strong enough to changes Rae’s values about asylum seekers. But different people will have different reactions to similar experiences. Darren still views boat people as ‘economic refugees.’ And his values are still the same. People’s values change because nobody is the same and maybe the experience is the same they may interpret it
differently.
To determine our values we must take the time to think about them and it takes a lot of work. The poets in general all take the time to think about their values and write a great poem which grasps the audience’s attention. I myself value a lot of things, friends, family, my education and more. These things are valued because they mean something to me. I want to keep my friends forever because they are there for you when you need them and I am there to help them as well. Family, because they give great emotional support and advice on life and I can learn from their mistakes. And my education, this is important to me because without this I’m going nowhere, work at Kmart for the rest of my life. We must continuously think about our values, in order to keep up with their changing nature.
It is true. We don’t always know our values until they are put to the test. Though I think there is a misconception that when people with unsound values have the potential to change. And as we learn from the characters of Rae, this is not always the case. Sometimes, catalysts just serve to reinforce what people already believe.