Change

How have the texts you have studied this year effectively shaped your understanding of the meaning of “change”?
Written By: Matthew Grech 12:504
Word Count: 1380

‘Change’ is a process that can have valuable or futile outcomes for the parties involved. The value of the outcome resulting from ‘change’ is determined by the dynamism of an individual or group in their ability to open their rationale to changes in perspective. This understanding of ‘change’ has been effectively shaped and represented through subsequent readings of the set text, a prose fiction Looking for Alibrandi, Text 1 ‘The Door’ and Text 2A and 2B from the stimulus booklet, and a variety of supplementary materials. Within each of these different text types the authors use a number of literary and artistic techniques to convey meaning and effectively shape this impression about ‘change’.

The set text, Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi focuses on the views of the main character Jos...