The Beach Discovery

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‘Discovery can offer new understanding or perception’.
To what extent have the composers of the texts you have studies used forms and features to explore this view of discovery?
Both the novel Wrack, and the film The Beach, to a large extent explore the concept that discoveries can present new understandings or perceptions about the world around us, society and even our own personal value system, however the texts studied reveal how a person’s personal agenda sometimes limit their ability to gain that understanding or new perception. Both the novel and the film question the impact of discovery and colonisation. Wrack by James Bradley is a histiographic metafictive novel that utilises postmodern forms and features and uses motifs, dialogue …show more content…
You come here with your pious belief in the past, your desire to understand, but you’re too stupid to realise that none of it is true, none of it is. Faith is a lie. Love is a lie. Only death is certain, and you, you’re too blind to see that’. Here Bradley is illustrating the limitations of David’s ability and uses the world around David and David’s own personal value system to influence his reactions and personal agenda and thus limiting his ability to gain understanding of the ‘terrible …show more content…
The younger brother tells his older brother about this man who was affected by the war and while the older brother searches in the encyclopaedia he notices, ‘he stopped looking at the book all together…his eyes were back on the TV and he wasn’t thinking about the man from Lebanon anymore…only I was’. Parrett also juxtaposes the two brother reactions; the younger brother dismisses it soon after he tells it but the older brother is completely immersed because of his youth he is open to discover. He explores the idea discovery can be knowledge instead of a physical things. He illustrates historical and cold hard facts through bricolage with the use of definitions, captions, maps and pictures all contained in an
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