Cosi Inner Journey

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The three texts Cosi, Freedom Writers and The Road not Taken, all symbolise Inner Journey in their own individual ways but all collectively have the same meaning and objective; to express their characters own personal experience in a way to make the reader understand the hardship and struggles that go through a persons life once you dig deeper into who they really are. Inner Journey is a pilgrimage of the self; it's goal is the realisation that life is both tragic and comic and therefore precious in the extreme. Every single person has there own Inner Journey, it's life, the ups and downs. Life will always throw you curveballs, unexpected occurrences that will change your life forever and whether you decide to let these experiences change and shape you, or use it to become a stronger person but in the end it will always lead you to where you are truly destined to be.

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The Road Not Taken talks about the decisions people have to make throughout their life’s inner journey and where these decisions will lead them. As written in Stanza Two “Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim”, Robert Frost is expressing that these options we have in life and the decisions we make are not easy to do and at times it may be stressful and confusing but to continue on with our life’s inner journey we must make a decision. Although at the time we may have chosen the wrong pathway or road but we should always be optimistic as the future holds great experiences and surprises for us. We can see this concept through Julie in the novel “Cosi”, she experienced rough patches throughout her life which put her away in a mental illness hospital but through time and hard work she managed to fix her life and get herself back on track for the rest of her life’s inner

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