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Understanding concepts
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Change is a process involving catalysts, transformations and experiences. The catalysts come in a multiple of forms and can vary from a significant life altering event as portrayed in Maeve Binchey’s Firefly Summer and Janine Shepard’s Never Tell Me Never or as common place as lessons learnt by an un named child in Gwen Harwood’s ‘The Glass jar’. Harwood’s eclectic poetic style effectively portrays her unfathomable wisdom of change. Most profoundly her pieces ‘At Mornington’ and ‘Prize Giving’ explore the means of maturity and time being concurrent as well as the inevitability of change they give rise to. ‘At Mornington’ also develops similar issues of change being a gradual process, a sudden process, or a forced process as elaborated in Miroslav Holub’s ‘The Door’. Catastrophic events are often catalysts for rapid physical and mental change. Binchey's irefly Summer presents us with a subtle and laid back writing technique to create a sense of normality and reality in the plot and characterizations that she created. Binchey’s reflection in the massive changing self that Kate undergoes is mesmerizing and enchanting instigating a profound understanding of life’s evolvement by the reader. Her notion of time being an ultimate reason for change rings through soundly. Initially Kate feels her life is “washed up, I’m not as strong as I used to be. People don’t and can’t rely on me.” However with time acting as a period of transition she understands her new place and is more “Blissfully happy than ever.” A clear assurance that reflection on the process of change is too a catalyst for this continual progression. With Binchey’s extraordinary use of imagery and description she demonstrates the notion that while the basis for change may not be virtuous, the change itself can still be entirely beneficial.
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