Texts explore the concept of discovery in complex ways.
What is discovered through
the text is closely linked to what is revealed within the text. To what extent is this true of Wrack and one piece of related material? Introduction: - Its true
- It is complex, these texts explore different aspects yet
Main Body Wrack 1 (in): - shifting landscape, motifs of shade/darkness
- What links David, Kurt and Fraser? consumed by the desire to discover, drive, unclear motives, possessive, corrupted - We can know, but can we understand? - the journals, histography
- Kurts unreliable narration
- Kurts revelation Wrack 2 (through): - what the reader discovers
- eclectic, provisional, reader as discoverer of meaning
- are we meant to share Davids despair? meniscus of possibilities Related Material (in): Related Material (through): Synthesis: - CONTRAST
- Different discoveries yet;
- What are the links between the 2 texts? profound, change and renew, perceptions of ourselves and the world - Complex, often conflicting ideas and feelings - Both texts allude to the irony, the best and worst of human endeavours c