Inner journeys always provide a lesson, how one chooses to perceive will determine the outcome. A person cannot predict the end result of an inner journey as they are constantly evolving, a positive conclusion relies on ones capacity to provide themselves an enlightened understanding. The 2011 film The Candidate by David Karlak follows Burton Grunzer a self righteous individual in need of change and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, a children's story about Max, a young boy learning to control his temper. Both represent the idea of inner journeys as a process and both support the idea that it is self reflection that will determine the outcome of whether or not the journey is positive.
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In contrast to the candidate, Sendak creates a positive outcome for Max. In the very first pages we see max acting out. Sendak uses a third person narrating voice; “his mother called him ‘WILD THING!’’’ Max replies “I’ll eat you up!” The references to animal behaviour in the dialogue foreshadow Max’s impending inner journey. The illustrations on these pages have Max in irresponsible scenarios, wearing a white wolf suit. The white Max wears symbolises his young adolescent innocence and the wolf suit his wild behaviour. As Max sulks, he lets his imagination create a place he’d rather be. A forest grows in his bedroom much like his anger and Max meets the wild things. The imaginary creatures are an expression of Max’s frustration, with his immaturity illustrated through the use of cliched hyperbolic description: they “roar[ed] their terrible roars and gnash[ed] their terrible teeth…” until max tames them with a “magic trick”. This helps Max to overcome his irritation towards his mother, because he is given the sense of authority he has wanted. Sendak gives us a strong understanding of how a child learns to deal with anger, his imaginary journey being a metaphor for his inner journey through the rage. Max allows himself to control the anger in the form of a “wild rumpus”. After some time he becomes exhausted and orders them to bed “without their supper” repeating what his mother told him, when max says this we can see he is learning that his mothers use of authority was in fact, necessary. As all the wild things sleep Max has time to dwell on his emotions and realise he’d rather be at home with his mother who “loved him best of all”. He sails home “over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day” the length of time symbolises the gaping hole the anger created between Max and his mother. But once he's home he finds his mother had left him supper by the bed “and it
All inner journeys will be understood differently, …show more content…
In contrast to the candidate, Sendak creates a positive outcome for Max. In the very first pages we see max acting out. Sendak uses a third person narrating voice; “his mother called him ‘WILD THING!’’’ Max replies “I’ll eat you up!” The references to animal behaviour in the dialogue foreshadow Max’s impending inner journey. The illustrations on these pages have Max in irresponsible scenarios, wearing a white wolf suit. The white Max wears symbolises his young adolescent innocence and the wolf suit his wild behaviour. As Max sulks, he lets his imagination create a place he’d rather be. A forest grows in his bedroom much like his anger and Max meets the wild things. The imaginary creatures are an expression of Max’s frustration, with his immaturity illustrated through the use of cliched hyperbolic description: they “roar[ed] their terrible roars and gnash[ed] their terrible teeth…” until max tames them with a “magic trick”. This helps Max to overcome his irritation towards his mother, because he is given the sense of authority he has wanted. Sendak gives us a strong understanding of how a child learns to deal with anger, his imaginary journey being a metaphor for his inner journey through the rage. Max allows himself to control the anger in the form of a “wild rumpus”. After some time he becomes exhausted and orders them to bed “without their supper” repeating what his mother told him, when max says this we can see he is learning that his mothers use of authority was in fact, necessary. As all the wild things sleep Max has time to dwell on his emotions and realise he’d rather be at home with his mother who “loved him best of all”. He sails home “over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day” the length of time symbolises the gaping hole the anger created between Max and his mother. But once he's home he finds his mother had left him supper by the bed “and it