Road Journeys Essay

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~Can you feel it!?~ Road journeys are quite unique. They aren’t your normal journey from point A to point B, it’s different from crossing the broad seas or soaring majestically in amongst the clouds. You can go from East to West, from North to South, to places near and far. The stretch of asphalt and concrete as you glide across the highway feels emotions just like the individuals in the vehicle. Road trips can be classified as TRUE and KNOWN, where one will set your hearts contempt to travel to places beyond your horizon with the other meaning that there is a set destination. The experience can be solely for individuals or it can be shared with those closest to you. As you go down the path of experiencing the road trip, you experience rites of passage. Just like the journey I undertook with my family just recently. Our journey took us from the Harbour City of Sydney to the place where Surfers call Paradise, I (being the youngest and only child within the group) felt that I was there just to be at the back and take in things from the changing surrounding that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Nearly at the age of 16, liminality came into play. Teenage years are situated right in the middle of being a child and being an adult, for me I felt that I was the kid which was true but in a sense I was also an adult going on this journey to make a new, more matured me. The rites of passage can be seen through that and in other places where the road trip genre co-exists. The journey which I experienced is a typical bildungsroman with the individual growing as the journey progresses. Culturally speaking, the entire world embraces the Road Trip genre. From Sydney, Australia to the big heights in Hollywood, USA, we can see that within the film industry the genre has been used a platform for many films. The broad styles of using this genre adapts to different environments and

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