GBTWYCF Essay

Discovery is the action or process of finding something. It’s when a person or individual discovers or perhaps finds out something which is new or has not been discovered or established before. It means to take a spontaneous journey whether it is planned or unplanned to experience new things and to gain knowledge. Such discoveries can result in individuals facing consequences which allow them to change their perspectives of themselves and the world around them. This is evident in the three texts, Go Back to Where you Came From a docu-reality show which aired on SBS in 2011, Alice in Wonderland a film composed by Danny Elfman in 2010 and This Lime-tree Bower my Prison a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797. Within each of these texts discoveries are shown to be sudden and unexpected or deliberate and planned, confronting and provocative, and lead to new values and stimulate new ideas. Various cinematic and literary techniques are used to help portray these ideas within each text. By viewing the themes and techniques used in the texts, it is clear that the ramifications of an individual’s discovery can change their perspective of themselves and the world.
Discoveries can lead individuals into facing ramifications as it permits them to change their perspectives of themselves and the world around them. The theme discoveries can be sudden and unexpected is highlighted in the prescribed text Go Back to Where you Came From in the scene where two participants of the show, Raquel and Raye, are sitting on a bed in the Masudi family’s home next to the mother of the family, Masara, as she tells them her violent story back when she lived in Congo before she seeked asylum in Australia with her family. With the use of a medium shot camera angle, it captures both the characters’ Raquel and Raye’s body language showing their reactions and how they feel while Masara tells them her story. The shot shows Raquel is very shocked with her mouth wide open while Raye has her