Journey into Self in Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite and Nancy Springer’s L

Journey into Self in Nicola Griffiths Ammonite and Nancy Springers Larque on the flank allow your soul roam free. Discover your true self. Play with your inner child. treat the memories of your ancestors. Understand your p atomic number 18nts. Have total self control. Open yourself up and look inside. These are accomplishments most worlds will n incessantly achieve, but Nicola Griffiths Marghe from her novel Ammonite and Nancy Springers Larque from her novel Larque on the Wing are able to do all of these things and more. They are accomplished non simply through careful, quiet reflection, but from action, adventure and danger which effort them to the point at which they must adapt and raise or discharge themselves forever. Both women are fully grown at the time of their several(prenominal) adventures, both have struggled through puberty and young adulthood, and have already come of age in so many words, and both are strong individuals who seem relatively happy with their w ork and their lives. However, because of the conflicts they are thrown into, they receive the chance to understand themselves more fully. Marghe and Larques adventures and misadventures open up possibilities for them to look deep within themselves and discover who they truly are-to remember their pasts, elevate insights into their personalities, and to fully realize their potential as human beings. All of these things coincide to paint exciting stories which give the reader greater insight into the human mind and a chance to explore gender roles in ways unavailable to us in our day to day manners. For Marghe, her stay on Jeep was supposed to be short, a trip to study the battalion and their society, but once she realized that she would be spending the rest of her life there, sh... ...natural and healthy. Both authors have presented a view of gender in which having detail male, or female qualities is unimportant, and what matters is exploring all of your potentially human qu alities. Marghe and Larque unexpectedly enrol on quests to learn more about themselves, and what they discover is more than they had ever thought possible. They connect with their pasts, discover hidden desires, and gain insights and abilities which cause them to grow exponentially. They discover who they truly are. Truth with a capital T. As pipit proclaims near the end of the novel as she battles her mother in a battle of the wills heightened by their psychokinetic powers, I am ME (Springer, 1994) Works CitedGriffith, Nicola. Ammonite. Toronto Ballantine Books, 1992. Springer, Nancy. Larque on the Wing. New York Avon Book, 1994.