The collective human experience (Past the shallows) Essay Plan

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the collective human experience “Past the shallows” Essay Plan

English Essay Plan:
Representations of relationships and their impact on the individual help us to understand, more broadly, the collective human experience.
Simply: The relationship of people in the book and their impact on themselves it has helps us understand the universal idea of the human experience.

Thesis Statement:
Overarching Idea: Relationships (Familial Relationships)
Miles and Harry are representations of the fragility of youth. (Childhood loss)
Miles scared of failing his dad
Harry scared of water & neighbour
Auntie scared of dad
“They wash up in the surf sometimes. The lost ones” This quotation is metaphorically referring to Harry as a lost one who washes up on the shore after he drowns.

Foreshadowing
(IDEA 1) Miles relationship with the water, explores the idea of fear of the unknown. “The sound and the smell and the cold waves making Harry different (..) He knew the way he felt about the ocean would never leave him now. It would be there always inside of Destructive relationships can have an enormous impact in shaping an individual’s identity, worldview and ability to effectively transition into adulthood.

Composers will often explore the impact of supportive and violent affiliations, manifested within relationships, in order to reflect an individual’s transition into adulthood. Abusive and Manipulative relationships will often culminate in “rough” and “unsettled” transition into adulthood. Within Favel Parrett’s sombre, yet tranquil novel “Past the Shallows”(2010), the impact of relationships are represented through the protagonist characters, Miles and Harry and their experience of childhood. Accordingly, Parrett intentionally portrays the suspension of the characters idealised existence, in order to evoke sympathy, alienation and confusion from her stratified audience. As characters relationships are broken by “bad” familial influences, they endure hardships that serve as a catalyst for their transition into adulthood, in relation to Parratt’s Bildungsroman genre. Ultimately the universal exploration of familial and fraternal relationships within “Past the Shallows” will reveal and underpin a character’s identity.