Away Michael Gow Analysis

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Discovery can encompass the experience of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected, or they can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder. Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual.
Away is a play written by Michael Gow, an Australian author and writer. The play involves three families such as Roy, a headmaster, Coral (Roy’s wife), Harry and Vic, and their son Tom who is dying of the disease Leukaemia and he is also a student at Roy’s school. Lastly, the third family, martyrish mother, Gwen and her husband Jim, and their daughter Vic who has mutual affection with Tom as they’ve met in recent schools they attended together.
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Coral is the wife of Roy and was also a mother, after her son died in the army, while fighting in the Vietnam War. Coral finds it difficult to find ways to cope with the death of her son, which led her to becoming much unattached from new experiences and that led her becoming a little crazy. Both Craziness and the loss of their son made life harder for them, it was not the money that affected them, it was the grieving over the loss of their son that destroyed