Life's Change Analysis

Change is an ongoing process it occurs not just at a developing age but also at a more mature stage in ones life. Change in general can include the basic journeys in ones life of love, children, memories, place and events. Some changes that happen arent as mundane and expected as some may think, the pure effect of change is that it may occur at any time, anywhere. Changing self becomes a part of an individuals improvement process, where they may transform for personal need, opportunities, values and other reasons. Change reveals to anyone a broad range of limits and yet possibilities able. Through the language, techniques, meaning and general context, Change is communicated through the following texts The Door by Miroslav Holub, Father & Child by Gwen Harwood, and Educating Rita by Willy Russel/ Lewis Gilbert and My Big Fat Greek Wedding by Joel Zwick/ screenplay Nia Vardulous.

The text ' The Door' by Miroslav Holub, published in/ during the Cold War was a text produced to persuade, intrigue and in a way also command the reader so they can take the initiative and alter their life. The audience for the text ' The Door' is generally for young adults to middle aged as they experience the need for change during that age gap. During the composition of the poem the reader can perceive a European background with the use of "woods".

'The Door' commands the speaker to open the door each time the composer says, " Go and Open the Door". It shows us that change can be a number of things, and that you my also remove barriers and introduce possibilities. Their are no certainties, but you will feel something. Throughout the poem' The Door' there are many techniques used such as visual imagery with the face, eye and ' picture of a picture', that all give an image of the everyday things that are part of life. Repetition with " open the door is persuasive and urging change. The change of tone from Happy to sad/ confused shows change can be negative or positive. "Maybe" written in italics emphasis possibility and lastly the vast amount of metaphors such as "nothing", "darkness tickling", and dog rummaging" show that change can occur through the most ordinary things.

'The Door' has taught us many things about the way in which change can take its place and form. For many of it we understand that even if its a little thing, or is seems like nothing, it is overall something. By opening a door in life you increase possibilities and may remove barriers.

Changing Self is what you experience when you open yourself up to new possibilities, experiences, loves, journeys, society, politics, and overall development of oneself. Life is altered by certain events that result in change of

Oneself.

Gwen Harwoods poetry is quite direct to changing self. In the 2-part poem Father & Child - Barn Owl and Nightfall describes the changes in the lives of a father and child. A young girl, who is quite rebellious, and experiments with the constraints of her father in attempting to seek be in command of herself.

Daybreak: the household slept. I rose, blessed by the sun. A horny fiend, I crept out with my fathers gun Harwood starts the poem off with a quick, sharp, fast paced illusion to show shes out to do something. The child sneaks out to kill a barn owl with the removed shotgun and when she shoots the owl, she awakens to the fact that death is pain. The act was bloody and hideous. This act shows that she is a horny fiend quite opposite to her fathers dream of an obedient, angel mild. When the father comes and tells the child end what you have begun, after she put the owl to peace she starts weeping on her father. This act demonstrates to the child it is evil, and this changes her view of death, for her whole life.

Many of the techniques that are used in Barn Owl are imagery for example during the horrible death bundle of stuff that dropped, and dribbled through loose straw tangling in bowels, and hopped blindly closer, give the reader an extreme picture of the execution of the owl. Another technique that symbolises the change is the way she alters through the poem. From being obedient, to horny fiend and lastly afraid. Her actions also demonstrate this similarly, she rose then stood, watched, fired and then leaned and wept. Changing self is shown thoroughly through this poem, death is shown to change the character of someone and also influencing him or her. By learning from out mistakes we can she that it impacts the rest of our life and the way we approach certain things.

In the second part of Father and Child Nightfall, the child once quick to mischief is now a middle aged woman coping with the reality of death, her fathers death. The title of the poem symbolises the subject matter, death. The poet and her father walk in the garden in which they talk. Father we pick our last fruits of the temporal Showing that they are ceasing to do what they used to, as death is approaching. She calls him her stick thin comforter showing that he is ageing and depends on her

Nightfall is a slower and controlled poem, which is technique used to show death. The woman, who shows her feelings through the poem, is also narrating the story herself. The tone of the poem is sad, and we can see grief, when she says you keep a childs delight for ever in birds, flowers, shivery grass. Again the strong use of imagery used by Harwood leaves the reader with the vision of her fragile, king like father leaning on her.

The power roles have reversed and she is now the one to lean on, instead of previously her leaning on him.

This poem observes how there life has change and that change is constant and relationships change over time, so does the way you think, feel and act from certain events. In the text Educating Rita by Willy Russell/ Lewis Gilbert, the audience observes the same attitude of change over time through new experiences, events, travel, and the overall deliberate need for change.

Willy Russell bases Educating Rita by Lewis Gilbert on a play, the overall purpose of this film is to demonstrate to the audience and let them be entertained while relating to the need to change through people. Set in England during the period of an open education system. Rita a lower class lady wants to be educated and she wants to change from the inside. She meets Dr Frank, and he teaches her literature.

Rita is trying to embrace change, from the inside. She is determined to change as her life concerns take her to a peak and she cant handle it. There must be a better song to sing than this, Rita states that she is looking and searching for the change. She develops slowly, and subtly from the experiences she takes. For example her trip away to summer school gave her more opportunities and opens many doors. She has earned the respect of people around her, and is at her best. Her knowledge develops soundly and her life is off to a new start. Techniques mainly used at the different close ups and the actual attitude of Rite, whom we see at the start of the movie shown silhouetted at the portal to the university, symbolising that she is coming in from the outside world, to the unknown darkness. Her dress sense of the down town lower class lady changes from in the start being hot pink skirt, high shoes, white top, blonde hair with an offside of a pink streak. As the movie develops she slowly comes down to more subtle colours and more care free and chic style, which she has decided helps her improve her education and the new her.

Rita begins to change through her lessons with Dr Frank, but it seems he changes himself. During Ritas period of change, while she is trying to experience all there is to change her image, and inside, she is confused of where she really belongs, either the working or educated class. This is given in the scene where Frank asks her to come to his house, and she stands outside and looks inside, she is an outsider.

Through the film we see that Rita is always trying to embrace change and experience new things. The changes that take place during the film are that she gains knowledge of literature, gains self-confidence, she opens her self up and makes new friends with students. Rita says, Found a better song to sing, No, just a different song which shows that over the time the changing process in which she has gone through has given her new prospects and possible more choices in which she can make a whole decision. She is now her own woman, who has her own choices. We interpret this in the final scene in which we see Dr Frank leaving for Australia, in which Rita farewells him. Before he leaves she opens her results to reveal a Distinction and she walks down the corridor at the end, by herself, and she is not dependant on anyone. This overall symbols her own journey through her hopes, dreams and emotions to stand on her own. She is now empowered and this gives her hope that her class status will change, just the way she did.