Physical Journey
Section III: Essay
Focus – Physical Journeys
How do the texts that you have studied explore the assumptions underlying the concept of the physical journey?
There are many assumptions about what a physical journey is. On one level, it is simply the movement from and origin to a new area known as the destination. The underlying concept however is much more detailed on a personal level. Physical journeys essentially begin with a catalyst, trigger, course that gives a person or people a reason to venture. These are filled with many challenges and obstacles that require the inner power of the person or group to overcome these problems, such as the power of courage and determination. These challenges are a catalyst in itself; they allow you to fight and withstand similar trials on a regular basis, they cause the person to grow. With all these concepts surround the essence of a physical journey, they become a trigger for and inner journey that allows us to celebrate who we are and what we have become due to the many hardships we’ve endured on the journey. These assumptions are what make up physical journeys; text such as Rabbit Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce, and Journeys over Land and Seas From the book of Stimulus, as well as my related materials The Road from Vietnam by Shelley Saywell and Family Footsteps: Kwaku’s Story Broadcasted by ABC TV, November 2, 2006, all are powerful testimonies to these concepts.
All demanding and significant physical journeys require a catalyst behind the reason to begin the journey. The several texts I mentioned, all have evidence to clearly back this concept of a physical journey. The feature article The Road from Vietnam by Shelley Saywell, both visual and written texts powerfully illustrates the significants of one event, one moment of time that can starts someone’s journey. The visual section of the text of the this one girl running down a road, clothes burnt straight off the back of her body, screaming; with napalm burning in the
Focus – Physical Journeys
How do the texts that you have studied explore the assumptions underlying the concept of the physical journey?
There are many assumptions about what a physical journey is. On one level, it is simply the movement from and origin to a new area known as the destination. The underlying concept however is much more detailed on a personal level. Physical journeys essentially begin with a catalyst, trigger, course that gives a person or people a reason to venture. These are filled with many challenges and obstacles that require the inner power of the person or group to overcome these problems, such as the power of courage and determination. These challenges are a catalyst in itself; they allow you to fight and withstand similar trials on a regular basis, they cause the person to grow. With all these concepts surround the essence of a physical journey, they become a trigger for and inner journey that allows us to celebrate who we are and what we have become due to the many hardships we’ve endured on the journey. These assumptions are what make up physical journeys; text such as Rabbit Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce, and Journeys over Land and Seas From the book of Stimulus, as well as my related materials The Road from Vietnam by Shelley Saywell and Family Footsteps: Kwaku’s Story Broadcasted by ABC TV, November 2, 2006, all are powerful testimonies to these concepts.
All demanding and significant physical journeys require a catalyst behind the reason to begin the journey. The several texts I mentioned, all have evidence to clearly back this concept of a physical journey. The feature article The Road from Vietnam by Shelley Saywell, both visual and written texts powerfully illustrates the significants of one event, one moment of time that can starts someone’s journey. The visual section of the text of the this one girl running down a road, clothes burnt straight off the back of her body, screaming; with napalm burning in the