The prescribed text “Go Back To Where You Came From” by Ivan O’Mahoney follows a documented journey of six participants with conflicting views on refugees and asylum seekers. The related text “Neighbours” by Tim Winton, explores a short story on the process of discovery of a young couple’s experiences as they move into a new multicultural neighbourhood. Through human experiences and sudden and unexpected discoveries, individuals are challenged and new perceptions and understandings arise.
Unexpected discoveries, challenge the views of the participants in the documentary series,where assumptions and beliefs are denounced by human aspects of the world .Raye is a very predominant participant throughout the entire documentary as it is believed …show more content…
The descriptive language in “..felt flattered..peeved”,prevails that initially the young woman was annoyed with her neighbours as they constantly caressed her during the pregnancy,showing the initial strain on the relationship and that she was not used to this attention and therefore an uneasy environment was created. However their realisation after the child was born in the imagery in “small queue..young man began to weep”,allows the couple to emotionally discover the support of the neighbours and how the baby itself just like in the prescribed text had renewed new perceptions about the neighbours as significant events like the birth of a child grants the ability to realise the shared humanity …show more content…
The simile in “sojourners in a foreign land” expresses how out of place they felt in the new neighbourhood. Furthermore, the vivid imagery in the descriptive language in “sounds of spitting...merely talking”,explores the fact that the couple is shocked by the behaviours of the neighbours as it was something that they were not used to,coming from the “seen and never heard” suburbs. As the story progresses the couple's forms a realisation of their perceptions of their neighbours to be misinformed and in the dialect “found themselves smiling back”, articulates the newly found understanding and acceptance of an emotional and intellectual discovery of the neighbours as they comprehend their willingness to help as seen in “polish widower...rebuilt it for
Unexpected discoveries, challenge the views of the participants in the documentary series,where assumptions and beliefs are denounced by human aspects of the world .Raye is a very predominant participant throughout the entire documentary as it is believed …show more content…
The descriptive language in “..felt flattered..peeved”,prevails that initially the young woman was annoyed with her neighbours as they constantly caressed her during the pregnancy,showing the initial strain on the relationship and that she was not used to this attention and therefore an uneasy environment was created. However their realisation after the child was born in the imagery in “small queue..young man began to weep”,allows the couple to emotionally discover the support of the neighbours and how the baby itself just like in the prescribed text had renewed new perceptions about the neighbours as significant events like the birth of a child grants the ability to realise the shared humanity …show more content…
The simile in “sojourners in a foreign land” expresses how out of place they felt in the new neighbourhood. Furthermore, the vivid imagery in the descriptive language in “sounds of spitting...merely talking”,explores the fact that the couple is shocked by the behaviours of the neighbours as it was something that they were not used to,coming from the “seen and never heard” suburbs. As the story progresses the couple's forms a realisation of their perceptions of their neighbours to be misinformed and in the dialect “found themselves smiling back”, articulates the newly found understanding and acceptance of an emotional and intellectual discovery of the neighbours as they comprehend their willingness to help as seen in “polish widower...rebuilt it for