Discovery

Student’s Name
Professor’s Name
Course Number
Date
Discovery
Abstract
The six characters in the documentary have different attitudes towards refugees at the beginning and the end of the series. This essay takes you through their journey and compares their journeys and personalities to those of characters in the messenger. It helps understand how and why Raye and Racquel change their attitude towards refugee. Since Glen and Roderick support the idea of helping refugees from the beginning of the documentary, do their opinions change? Adam changes his attitude but Daren is hardhearted towards a specific group of refugees.
Introduction
The documentary, Go Back Where You Came From, is one of the most watch and contentious TV events. In Australia, the series has caused heated debate on the refugee and asylum seekers’ predicaments. The series invokes feelings by taking both the participants and responders out of their comfort zone whereby they are confronted and challenged with events, characters, and circumstances leading to innumerable discoveries about individuals and the world. Therefore, this essay seeks to the journey of discovery of each of the six individual in the documentary.
Body
Raye lived in South Australia and started her journey showing how much she hated refuge seekers. By the end, she has such a strong bond with the family of African refugees that her entire journey was filled with tears of kindness, kindheartedness and empathy for the refugees. Racquel is from Western Sydney, an uneducated and unemployed high school dropout.

She is aware of her racism and admits that she does not like Africans. By the end of the documentary, she has learned to see the humanity in Africans. The two share personalities with Suzanne’s father, the father to a girl that Marv impregnated, in I am the Messenger. He hated Marv, claiming he brought disgrace to his family, but they reconcile.
Gleny has a part-time job as a teacher and is also a singer. She is very supportive to the refugees from the start, and even demands that more asylum seekers be accepted in Australia. Roderick is Deputy President of the Australian Young Liberal who feared being professed as a giant lefty. From the start to the end, he holds that the debate on the asylum seekers in boats should be focused on the issues that drove there. The two have personalities a similar as that of Ed, in I Am the Messenger, who helps a widow named Milla and a young girl, Sophie. Milla has been waiting for her husband who died in the world war while Sophie runs bare footed but cannot win her track meets.
Adam is a lifeguard from Sutherland Shire, not to mention a partaker in the Cronulla unrests. At first, he held that the refugees should be put on a plane and sent back. However, his trip to Detention Center makes him understand the psychological distraction that follows indeterminate confinement. Daren is a man with military experience and a member of the Liberty Party. From the start to the end of the documentary, he is against the “boat people”. He believes that they not refugees but economic migrants. However, he has much compassion for genuine refugees in Malaysia and Africa. There is much contrast between Daren and Audrey, in I Am the Messenger because she is not moved much by all the things that Ed to prove that he loves her.
Conclusion
In summary, it is clear that while a discovery can be carefully planned and instigated, its results can be very unforeseen and confrontational. Both the documentary and novel raise feelings by taking both the participants and responders out of their comfort zone whereby they are confronted and challenged with events, characters, and circumstances leading to innumerable discoveries about individuals and the world.