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Away And The Book Thief

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Discoveries can provoke emotional and intellectual responses in a person either in a positive or a negative way. Away by Micheal Gow and the book theif by Markus Zusak clearly demonstartes the idea. Away is about Tom, Gwen, Coral, Meg, Roy, Harry, Vic, Jim and how one holiday vacation changed their journey. The book thief is about Liesel, a girl who is taken in by a German family during the nazi regime. Through a close analysis of both these texts certain insights on discovery arise. Knowledge gained through a process of discovery can change an individual’s perception of society, Discoveries can heal the burden that’s waiting to get outside. Knowledge gained through a process of discovering can change an individual’s perception of society. This is …show more content…

She asked Jim to join her in the water after the emotional revelation “Come on down to the water. The water is so warm”. She is used to hate everything about water and the setting itself tells us that the knowledge about Tom’s condition emotionally challenged her to look outside her material possessions, it was one of the positive thing that happened to her and the discovery changed her. In act 1, when Gwen talked to Meg about how Tom and his family shouldn’t go to the trip, if they don’t have enough money. Tom upon hearing this furiously put an imaginary curse on her “I hope you have a rotten holiday. I hope it rains...I hope you have fucken miserable time” and this was very symbolic for Gwen as it did indeed happen. The intellectual discovery tom had of Gwen speaking ill of his family resulted in Tom putting the imaginary curse on Gwen. For Gwen it was one of the negative thing happened to her as she lost her beloved material possessions. The discovery of tom’s illness made an emotional response in Gwen and the discovery of Gwen’s bitterness towards Tom’s family made an intellectual response in Tom. In book thief, on the celebration of Hitler’s birthday, Nazi’s burned Jews

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