Change and Inner Journey

Any pilgrimage includes both realities and possibilities, the three schoolbooks that we deliver studied in class, the film Pleasantville by Gary Ross and the poems Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and Journey to the Interior by Margargont A iiod, run this idea as these texts include the protagonist having embarked on not simply natural and interior trips in reality tho if in like manner unreal.The travel is known to be imaginary for the auditory sense, but for the divisions of the text these journeys have conduct them to be in a different stage in heart, not only physical but internally, evolving into different people or having what get completely different people due to these journeys. In the 1977 film Pleasantville by Gary Ross, the protagonists, David and Jennifer begin their physical journey when they argon sucked into the 1950s television program pleasantville when it becomes imaginary impossible.When their journey was first embarked David and Jennifer where very different characters which is juxtaposed with the fact that they are brother and sister. At the beginning of the film David is portrayed as an inapt teen boy, not being the popular one at coach and definitely not having many fri expirys. David is confrontn as being unhappy with his life and is on that pointfore outlined using the television program pleasantville as an escape.In Rosss film this is shown in a barb amidst David and his mother, Davids mother is shown on the phone arguing to his father almost who received custody of the children on that weekend, the audience can see the distance between the children and parents, this is one of the complications in Davids life. David is picture sitting in the next room watching his dearie T. V program pleasantville, a close-up is used on Davids face to show his intense concentration on the program, he attempts to block out his mothers verbalize as she becomes louder by likewise increasing the volume of the television.What Davi d longs for is to be a part of Pleasantville where there is zero negativity. Opposed with David is his sister Jennifer. Typical 90s teenage girl, Jennifer wears the latest clothes, and dating the coolest boys in school, her main priority is increasing her maculation in the social ladder. These differences are depicted in a scene from the resort area when David sits and talks to his friend about Pleasantville, the camera then pans the playground to the opposite side of a fence, where Jennifer is seen alking to her friends.The pan shows the distance between the two characters, whilst the headingive of the fence is to act as a symbolic object symbolising their differences. Once they are transported into pleasantville, physical and imaginative journey, David takes the graphic symbol of bud one of the protagonists in the program and Jennifer now taking on the role of Mary Sue, the roles of David and Jennifer have changed as David understands all the values of pleasantville, but it i s all new to Jennifer.Due to Jennifers lack of knowledge she doesnt care about Pleantville homogeneous David does and she begins to make changes, David isnt happy, we have to play along or we allow alter their universe. Pleantville is Davids fantasy and he doesnt want it to change in any way, maybe it withdraws to be messed with said by Jennifer demonstrates her debate views. This gives the audience the knowledge that things are going to change. These changes are caused when the relationship between Jennifer, Mary Sue and Skip, captain of the basketball team, begins to advance.The beginning of change is depicted by a red rose in the alternate sinister and white world. Colour is very symbolic in Pleasantville, it signifies not only physical change of pleasantville but also the national journeys each character undergoes. The values of Pleasantville also change with the physical changes. Individuality is not tolerated and these changes increases the characters aptitude to have t heir own thoughts and beliefs.David and Jennifer have remained black and white, even though they have been the cause of all the changes in pleantville, this symbolises that they are also in need for change. The intolerance for individuality is demonstrated when Betty, mother of Bud and Mary Sue, get hold the need to hide the fact that she has also become coloured to accommodate to the norms of society, I cant go out there looking like this the grey make up is juxtaposed with the colour. Bettys in-person privileged journey deals with her appreciating her individuality therefore her colour.Her values as a housewife are also tested. David and Jennifers values and characteristics are also shaped and moulded, these changes occurred in when their physical journey became and inside(a) journey. David is more confident and content with who he is, and Jennifer also begins to appreciate herself a lot more and begins making personal changes such(prenominal) as studying and reading books. O nce the two protagonists have reached the end of their inner journeys, they too become coloured.At the end of the film the audience is presented with the understanding that David and Jennifer have gone through a physical and inner journey not only in reality but in possibilities. The Road not taken by Robert Frost is an analogy of an inner journey in the form of a physical journey. two roadstead lay in the white-livered woods this allows the reader to see the pellucid possibilities involved in the journey the protagonist is undergoing, it also gives the reader the appearing of a physical journey.The audience leave alone then come to an understanding that it is also an inner journey, the fork in the road outlines the decisions and natural selections one essential make in life, and there is always more than one. Robert Frost creates the atm that one can only get one path in life and it determines everything, one must choose the path that is best accommodate for themselves al though you may not know what the future holds, looking down both, not seeing past where the path meets the undergrowth.The path that is chosen will grow and change the character of the person, therefore being an inner journey. The yellow woods are symbolic as they represent maturity. I choose the one less travelled by and that made all the difference this quote suggest that Frost has chosen the less popular option in his life, maybe utilising harder work, but that made all the difference in his future. The readers have great feeling that he has also grown as a person. Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood is another analogy of an inner journey in a physical journey.Atwood uses the Canadian landscape to quarter her conscience, she describes it as being dark and spindly also calling it scurvy land. Atwood allows the reader to feel as if inner journey to flummox oneself are treacherous and dangerous, and if undergoing a physical journey which will at long last be part of the i nner journey one is presented with many distractions, a person may also feel completely lost and incapable(p) like being caught in tangles of branches or an invincible net of appearance.Like Robert Frost, Atwood makes the future seem uncertain, full of possibilities that one can not prepare for she describes the future as not the easy going from point to point, a dotted line on a map , she also mentions that one can not take directions from others on their own personal journey, they must be their own guide a compass is useless .In her poem Margaret Atwood explains that a person must make metre to find their inner self, keeping focused on the journey they began some(prenominal) I do I must keep my head, causation changes and becoming a better and happier version of their former self. These three text have outlined that any journey includes both realities and possibilities as there is always more than one option in life and in any situation presented. These possibilities and rea lities are also determined with the individual and how farther they plan to exceed in their journeys.