Journeys Essays

A railway journey is always an interesting experience. I have travelled by train many times. But this time’s Railway journey was the most memorable one. Last Sunday, I went to Lucknow by train with my friends. We hired a scooter and reached the New Delhi Railway Station. There was a …

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was the second and final novel of Laurence Sterne, published barely a month before his death in 1768. The novel first popularised the travel writing genre and describes the journey through France and to Italy undertaken by Mr Yorick, the parson who first …

            The search for identity is often a perilous journey and a special topic for authors throughout history. Identity is often realized through interaction with society, family, and course of study or occupation. It is not easily achieved and rarely happens without cycles of rejection and acceptance of surrounding values. …

The play The Lost Boys: Letters from the Sons in Two Acts recounts the lives of five of R.H. Thomson’s great-uncles who were sent off to fight in the first world war. The material for the play came from the Thomson family’s collection of over seven hundred letters sent by …

Introduction. This paper narrates the events of the day when everything could be said to have gone wrong. It is an exploration of one unfortunate day when I traveled from upcountry to the city to attend a job interview and then proceed to college for my third semester exams. The …

OCR Drama Exam Tasks Students have to choose one question to answer from a choice of three. The first of the three choices will always be extract-based. The extract is usually one to one and a half pages in length with the questions focusing directly on the extract (referring to …

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. —Joseph Campbell, The Hero With …

I was at my home when it first hit me, I was looking in my bathroom mirror and although I had felt similar to this before, this time was different. I was tired of seeing what I looked like and have never felt so miserable about myself in my entire …

This is a personal story describing a “journey” which you have experienced. The “journey” may be real or figurative. In either case, you are to write an account of a particular incident or encounter in your life that in one way or another illustrates a stage of growing up (at …

Challenges and choices are a part of every journey. They are significant factors to the end of many journeys. ‘Lord of the Flies’, a novel by William Golding, and the film ‘Freedom Writers’, directed by Richard LaGravenese, are texts which both involve these aspects of journeys and convey them to …