Change- Five Parts Dead

Change impacts a human being and the surrounding environment around them constantly. During the Area of Study- Change my understanding of change, its different factors and different types of change has widely broadened. There were three texts that change was quite significantly shown, these texts are; the novel ‘Five Parts Dead’ the novel written by Tim Pegler, ‘Harvey Krumpet’ a short Claymation film composed by Adam Elliot in the year of 2003 and ‘The Door’ a poem written by Miroslav Holub. Each text is different in the way in which it reconnoiters the notion of change and the effect this has on those around it. In Five parts dead, Pegler distinguishes the mode of how chief life change an individuals outlook on life but also sructinises the journey they undertake to completely understand the significance of change in ones life. Harvey Krumpet and Five parts dead both evoke the same focus of change in the given text. Adam Elliot states that change can affect anyone's life unexpectedly at any sudden point in time and display a major impact, negative or positive. Now to the third text, our second related text, The Door. This poem evokes change in the aspect of the door being the barrier to change. Miroslav Elliot focuses on the fact that some people are afraid of change and how change can be subtle. In these 3 given texts we learn that change can be mundane or extravagant, but whichever one you get is always better then no change at all.

When a change is first established, an individual is pressured to adapt to their new conditions and surroundings. In my main chosen text, ‘Five Parts Dead’ adaption by telling us the circumstances that Dan is in at the very beginning of the story and this is done so by explaining to us for example that Dan is in a wheelchair. “…I hate this chair, I loathe it”. This is showing that Dan really hates being in a wheelchair and is struggling to the new adaptation. Pegler uses short but sharp and confronting sentences when he is...