Is Reading Outmoded? - on the Jellicoe Road

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Reading, outmoded in the 21st Century? Should we say that writing is archaic, music is antiquated, art is passé? Reading is something that will never be obsolete because it is a timeless and immortal spring of information and emotions that cannot be removed merely due to a progress over time. Reading and books contain knowledge and sensations that cannot be quelled or dispelled over thousands of years and their eternal morals and tales are those that can be related and associated to no matter what the decade or person. “Books are lighthouses, erected in the great sea of time.” – E.P Whipple. On the Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta, is a modern novel written in 2006 and explores enduring themes that occur in life, particularly identity and loyalty. On the Jellicoe Road delves into a town where parallels are drawn between our protagonist Taylor and a group of children who lived there previously. Taylor, searching for her identity is surprised to find that she is inconceivably linked to the lives of these children. Her journey to find herself is supported by her friends, their unwavering loyalty and friendship aiding her in her passage to discover who she is. Unknown, a 2011 film directed by Juame Collet Serra, examines themes similar to those in On the Jellicoe Road. A picture in which a man, Dr Martin Harris, has suffered from amnesia due to a car crash and is trying to acquire his identity, faces the same problem as Taylor, where another story runs similar to his own but he is unable to create links aside from the one picture and fractured memories he has of his wife. During this time, he joins forces with the same person who executed the car crash and with her loyalty and desire to aid him, they attempt to unravel his identity. “Belong. Long to be … I like that word.” Everyone has an identity that belongs to nobody but themselves. Identity is a strange

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