Persona and Discovery

This shows that the persona is waking up to the amount of destruction this new society is having on the world and how it has impacted on every individual person.
             Flames on dangling wire, portrays a grim image of human change. It explores the self-destructive nature of the human race, a consumer society consuming itself. This gives the persona of an inner discovery that all change will have consequences, and that the consequences of our materialistic society will ultimately be destruction of our world and ourselves. .
             The understanding of the world we live in and ourselves is much dependent on how we chose to see the way our materialistic society as either, a good or bad thing, Gray doesn't see it as a good thing as he has evidently portrayed it through flames on dangling wire, however he doesn't show the reader what sort of effect it has on 1 person or ourselves which Meatworks does. Meatworks shows the inner workings of a man moving away from the materialistic life of the city to the nicer life of the country where a person's importance isn't measured on there belongings. Gray potrays a new found curiosity and wonder, to the country life, that can be the way a person can rediscover themself and create understanding to the world we live in, but shows how hard it is to move away from that sort of frame of mind and shows how cruel of a process it is. This cruelty of the process can be seen through the personification of the machine "chomping bloody mouth", this displays the cruelty of slaughter, which in turn represents the crushing of the materialistic life of the city. .
             The persona then come to the realisation of how poisonous its previous lifestyle was to them and the world by throwing all things away once they became uncool or non fissionable and starts to feel guilt. This guilt leads the persona on the unexpected journey of changing his life around which can be perceived through the emotive language " the shiny, white-bruising beach, in mauve light, past the town" this shows the persona's guilt for their action of the materialistic lifestyle and is starting to become sorry for their action.