Journey The North Coast Poem Analysis

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Journeys can have a range of effects and impacts. These journeys can be both planned and unexpected and the obstacles these journeys must be overcome by all people in order for them to them to complete their journey. “Journey: The North Coast”, a poem by Robert Gray demonstrates how a journey can lead a person back to the familiar and to contentment. Les a Murrays poem “driving through sawmill towns” presents us with a number of views of life is sawmill towns. A travel article, “One Night in the Sahara” by Amanda Jones demonstrates how journeys can reveals things about ourselves we didn’t know. Driving through sawmill towns is composed in four different sections which represent the journey of a traveler through a sawmill town. The different sections show us four different perspectives: Section 1 focuses on the travelers and the use of 2nd person pronouns in this section helps to involve us. In this section there are uses of alliteration to gain our attention. “Your widescreen parts the forest” is a novel way of expressing the ongoing journey. The words “alive with pebbles” is personification and it adds an idea of…show more content…
She explains with a lot of detail her experiences of the Sahara. Throughout the piece she tells us about a variety of different experiences and challenges that she has to face. During the night while all the other campers went to bed Amanda went out on walks. One night she walked too far and found herself lost with no trails or ways back to camp. Even though she had modern and westernized skills they were useless in this situation. After searching for hours she found a glow and started making her way over there to find a wodaabe tribesman. Amanda tried to communicate with the man but he could not understand her. The man rescued her and got her back to safety. This girl had a lot of different adventures and a journey she will never
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