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Can anyone suggest some good texts for journeys? (excluding prescribed text for HSC)
 

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judith beveridge's domesticity of the giraffe, orb spider, the two brothers.
 

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Anything with a journey in it, which is basically most texts. Just pick something short and sweet that has heaps of techniques in it which you wouldn't mind watching/reading over and over again.
 

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Films

-A Beautiful Mind
-The House of Sand and Fog
-The Last King Of Scotland
-Gran Torino
-Million Dollar Baby
-The Pursuit of Happyness

Books

-The Road by Cormac McCarthy
-The Last Lecture by Randy Paush
-Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cuxin
 

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Physical: http://community.boredofstudies.org...rneys/25471/supplementary-texts-physical.html

http://community.boredofstudies.org/314/focus-physical-journeys/25471/supplementary-texts-physical.html

Imaginative: http://community.boredofstudies.org/315/focus-imaginative-journeys/22164/supp-texts-imaginative.html

http://community.boredofstudies.org/315/focus-imaginative-journeys/22164/supp-texts-imaginative.html

Inner: http://community.boredofstudies.org/316/focus-inner-journeys/22166/supp-texts-inner.html

http://community.boredofstudies.org/316/focus-inner-journeys/22166/supp-texts-inner.html
 

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A great poem for journey is
"The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost
This poem has great metaphorical depth. Though it may lack length the depth of the entire poem surely doesn't lack content.
 

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A great poem for journey is
"The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost
This poem has great metaphorical depth. Though it may lack length the depth of the entire poem surely doesn't lack content.
Be careful if you are picking this text - it was a set text before (and perhaps might still be?) and is very well known. Your analysis has to be top notch if you're going to use it and even then, most teachers will most likely groan when they see that you're using it.
 

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Most movies are great for the 'journeys' study, but here are some really good ones:

The Count of Monte Cristo - shows the journey of Edmond Dantes from a boy, to a man. The whole movie is basically a metaphor of this journey.

Braveheart- The journey of William wallace from a 'lovestruck family man'
to a savage war hero
 

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Be careful if you are picking this text - it was a set text before (and perhaps might still be?) and is very well known. Your analysis has to be top notch if you're going to use it and even then, most teachers will most likely groan when they see that you're using it
Agreed.
 

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Be careful if you are picking this text - it was a set text before (and perhaps might still be?) and is very well known. Your analysis has to be top notch if you're going to use it and even then, most teachers will most likely groan when they see that you're using it.
That is true, but if you willing to put hours into it you should be fine. My advice, read some analysis's from the internet but do not use them. I'm sure your teacher would of seen many similar ones before, get the idea from the internet and write YOUR OWN interpretation.
 

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precious (that new movie)
blind side.
remember the titans.
fairy tales by the brothers grim
 

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Physical: http://community.boredofstudies.org...rneys/25471/supplementary-texts-physical.html

http://community.boredofstudies.org/314/focus-physical-journeys/25471/supplementary-texts-physical.html

Imaginative: http://community.boredofstudies.org/315/focus-imaginative-journeys/22164/supp-texts-imaginative.html

http://community.boredofstudies.org/315/focus-imaginative-journeys/22164/supp-texts-imaginative.html

Inner: http://community.boredofstudies.org/316/focus-inner-journeys/22166/supp-texts-inner.html

http://community.boredofstudies.org/316/focus-inner-journeys/22166/supp-texts-inner.html
Thanks for that info. Really helped.
I was stuck on finding a text for my tutor and this really helped.
 

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