English Case

Have you ever been challenged by an experience? Have you ever changed because of this experience? Biggie Smalls once said, “We can’t change the world. Unless we change ourselves”.

The concept “Into the World” is defined as a process assisted with many new experiences and changes that may occur in one’s life. An individual’s response to these experiences faced and changes can be classified or known as a consequence. ‘The story of Tom Brennan’ composed by J.C Burke and the film ‘Juno’ directed by Jason Reitman both emphasis the idea that people are able to come out of difficult situations and see the world from a new perspective.

Throughout the novel ‘The Story Of Tom Brennan’ Burke cleverly employs an enormous amount of changes as a result of one tragic event. The event involves universally known themes which are teen drinking and driving. She enhances the insight on the consequences of moving into the world and the requirement of courage to overcome internal and external barriers through basing the novel on a narrative voice of the protagonist, Tom Brennan. This is portrayed when leaves his home and moves to a new unfamiliar town due to the situation his family encountered. This is conveyed through ‘closed the front door of our home for the last time’. This very symbolic gesture exemplifies the transition from their previous life in Mumbilli to the journey towards the town of Coghill. The closing of the door symbolises the devastation the accident has had upon the family, forcing them to adapt to change and voyage on the pathway available to them. As a result, leaving the responder with the thought that the Brennan family is forcibly leaving the town due to a negative incident.