All of the texts I have studied share the same theme of characters going through drastic change in setting and surroundings, into a setting that has different opportunities and a completely different attitude. I will be looking at how this changes them, and how each character adapts to the surroundings. Looking at how a more open world and surroundings creates a more open minded character, and a more closed world, with less opportunities, leads to a more closed minded specialised character. The texts I have chosen are; “Goodnight Mr tom”, “call of the wild” ,“Lilo and stitch”, and “the 100”, “Goodnight Mr Tom” by Michelle Magorian is my first text. The book starts off with the intense contrast between the two main characters. The book then …show more content…
This dramatic shift in setting and attitude, causes dramatic shift in Will. He is more open, more free, and generally happier. Reflecting the people and the world around him. Then he gets told he has to return to his mother in London. He leaves the kindness of his new home and goes back to his mother's restrictive grasp. he cannot comprehend his mother's displeasure of his development, as he has adapted to being in a positive environment. In little time he is back her grip on his life has forced him to change again, crumbling into a repressed bleak mind. No longer speaking back or having a cheerful attitude. Once more a reflection of his setting. Mr Tom rescues him and Will returns to little Weirwold with Mr Tom. He sparks back into life, more free than before, adapting to the village and its people and opening up again. Like participating in the school theater, something he never would have done before. He altered himself to become more like Zach, so the death of his friend Zach makes him feel as if he has lost part of himself. He learns more about himself and who he is accepting this death. His new Setting becomes ingrained in him, he becomes a part of the …show more content…
It is also my next text. In this book, we follow a massive half St Bernard, half Scot hound dog named Buck. Buck lives a peaceful life on an estate in Santa Clara. Free to do as he wishes, with his every need taken care of by his owners. He reflects his easy, open lifestyle by being trusting, free and proud. This life ends for Buck when he is stolen and sold to thieves that supply gold miners in the yukon with sled dogs. Buck tries to fight but he is met by a choke collar and a club, beaten until he understands he is no longer his own master. He adapts to this, discarding his previous ideas of how the world works. No longer trusting and open, Buck is sold to two men named Perrault and François and taken to alaska. Where he is thrown into the wild lawless world of the Yukon. He learns to survive among the savage dogs that are now his teammates, to live with the small rations, back breaking work, constant discipline and pain. Buck reflects this changing brutal world, discarding his morality that he held high in Santa Clara. He learns, he survives, He fights, and he adapts. The quote “Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law” from Bucks thoughts, shows us the wild world he is in and is reflecting. Buck is sold on and almost worked beyond his limits by his next master, most of the other dogs in his team die during this. Buck, however, survives. Proving again