Exploring Journeys in 'The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas' and 'Serial'

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How the concepts of journeys are depicted in The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas and Serial?

In context all texts contain one or a combination of journeys. The concept of journeys can vary from persona to persona, a journey is progress of a person on the road, either mentally, physically or spiritually. Although both texts Serial and The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas explore the different journeys, The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas and Serial Podcast both have an example of journeys and different characters exploring a journey. Serial is a real murder case that is presented as a TV crime podcast that is based on Adnan Syed, who is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Ha Me Lee. Sarah Koenig a journalist and also the narrator of serial guides the listeners through the death of Ha Min Lee offering varying perspectives, from all the suspects. Sarah doest make Serial into a biased decision even tho Sarah is a reporter, which most reporters do. Sarah looks into every single detail into what happened and was Adnan the killer or was this all a mistake. Adnan isn't the only one to go through a journey, Sarah and the listeners go on the journey with them. In contrast with The Boy In Stripped Pyjamas film that is based on a hero Bruno the protagonist and his love for adventure leading him to the journey on finding a good Jewish person. Bruno is the only …show more content…

Similarly Adnan and Bruno have to learn to accept the fact that where they are standing in life. In life sometime we have to accept defeat even if we know that we haven't lost inside of us, thus making us stronger and making us more powerful to take on the next journey that

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