Journey To The Interior Essay

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The prose provides a thought-provoking insight into the process of discovering existential meaning for the first time. The two dimensions in the prose revealed the multifarious nature of discovery that can be intensely meaningful in ways that may be physical and intellectual. Literally it is a physical discovery arises from the exploration of the Canadian interior, emphasising the obstacles and impediments involved, applied especially to the unfamiliar ones. While the physical discovery of the untamed terrain is utilised as a metaphor of the intellectual discovery with wider spectrum of searching existential meaning, which can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves. Hence the unpredictability and the diversity of discovery …show more content…

Being the meat in the sandwich of the rivalry between her mother and grandmother, Pung’s bewilderment is evident in her confession “I have no sense of royalty”. The evolution of time allows Pung to accumulate new understandings of her “word-spreader” status and transitions from naivety to maturation. Pung’s introspection upon the burden as a “word-spreader” which is indeed a spiteful weapon that impairs the spiritual bond between her mother and grandmother, evokes her dynamic inner turmoil and exacerbates her sense of compunction. While the juxtaposes physical and figurative level in “Journey to the Interior” create an antithesis of the accompanied adversities in not merely the physical discovery, but also the intellectual discovery. “A sentence...I’m sure I passed yesterday.” connotes a state of Dejavu experienced by the narrator which in essence is a reminiscence of her mediocre life “sodden as a fallen log” that seems to be playing cyclically. Clinging onto life, the coda conveyed towards the end of the prose illustrates the narrator’s intellectual speculation that she must have firm faith to discern the unseen perils, demonstrating that discovery from blindness to insights are undertaken for self-development and

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