English - Change

English Assessment

Change requires a person to step out of their confront zone in order to experience the transformation in their lives. Through change, a person gains more experiences and stronger relationships to the individuals that supported the person throughout its process of change. By using the combination of Debra Oswald’s ‘Gary’s House’ and ‘The Door’ by Miroslav Holub explore this notion of change. The individual will first experience the catalyst that started change, the process consist of the choices they make through life in order to reach the effect of change which it resulted in a new experience that transform their lives.

Debra Oswald’s ‘Gary’s House’ explores the catalyst in our lives pushes out of our comfort zone in order for us to open up to change. To correct this concept, Oswald focuses on ‘paradoxical characterisation’ on Dave’s fear in relationships through the combination of two examples. Gary’s words ‘you finish up your business here, and then head off to nowhere in particular… How long can you keep going like that?’ indicates Dave’s character of a restless wanderer who is always on the move. This suggests that he has a refreshing life in which he meets new people and gain new friends. In other words he opens up to change. But on the other hand, changing his environment implies to the audience that he keeps restarting his life. Dave’s Rules of ‘Keeping clear of sad shit’ portrays him also as a person who keeps clear of emotional involvement in the lives around him. However Dave’s catalyst was not until Gary’s death that his perspective of the world is altered. For a moment in Act 2 Scene 3, there was a shift in Dave’s tone that allows him to step out of his confront zone. ‘If I’d stayed with him till the morning - talked him through that night – it would’ve been different,’ this text explained his guilt and regret from that night. It indicates that he blames himself and feels the need to take the responsibility; learning that abiding...