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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

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