Proposal

In our lives we occupy many different types of environment. Work, school, home, cars, these are all environments that we occupy and they all have the the ability to effect our moods in different ways. For my theme I want to use the car as an environment that is able to take your mood through a transition. For example: A man and his wife argue at home unable to come to any resolution. He leaves to take a drive in his car in order to get away for minute. While he is gone he is away from the scene of his fight and alone in the car with his thoughts. He goes through a mental transition and by the time he gets back to his wife the tone of the argument has changed and they are able to resolve the situation. This theme's purpose is to take an everyday form of transition and to magnify its importance so that it becomes a metaphor for a mental transition in general.

I wanted to explore this theme in hopes that it would help define my own transition from being in college to being in the work force. How has college, as a vehicle, effected my mental transition? When does this transition actually occur? was it a gradual transition over the course of my college career, or does the bulk of the transition happen at the moment of graduation? You could compare this to my analogy of the man and his wife. When does the man transition from anger to acceptance and understanding, was it actually in the car ride, or was it the culmination of his thoughts up to the point of walking back in the door of his home.