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Discovery In Swallow The Air

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Good morning everyone today i will be exploring discovery and more specifically concealed discovery. Which will be explored through my additional texts which are the film Fight Club and JFKs speech on putting a man on the moon. What is discovery? To discover something is defined as to find information, a place or an object for the first time. The first text i will be exploring discovery in is Swallow the air. The first text i will be analysing is Swallow the air. Swallow the air is mainly filled with personal and cultural discoveries in the form of its protagonist May Gibson through the use of first person by Tara Jane Winch. Swallow the air explores through May’s experiences themes of loss, substance abuse, death, physical and emotional violence, culture and family. These themes are seen throughout swallow the air but i will be exploring these themes along with the aspects of discovery more in depth through the chapters ‘My bleeding Palm’, ‘Territory’ and ‘Home” …show more content…

This chapter also deals with issu.es that cause May to lose her trust in people, this is shown in the vulgar line. “This is gunna show ya where ya dont belong dumb girl”. This chapter also emphasises violence and racism with other despicable lines and actions. May goes through an ordeal that forces a change in her, this is similar to the personal discovery in Fight Club as May and the Narrator come to discover who they really are, who they must become and how they should respond with this new found understanding of the world. For May it is a discovery of prejudice and discrimination through cultural discovery that indigenous people such as her a treated horribly within society. For May she was treated as an object, sexually and violently harassed, as a lesson to teach her not to be just who she

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