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“Raw” by Scott Monk – Task 1 (Essay) Scott Monk’s narrative text appropriately addresses the concept of the institution and personal experience. “While an institution might encourage individuals to change through enforcing rules and regulations, it is the individual who ultimately holds the power to change.” Monk uses various characters to symbolise the range of attitudes and responses adopted by young people of today and the different stages they go through to transform these attitudes. The character of Brett Dalton symbolises the common attitudes and behaviours of teenagers in particular, that have trouble co-operating with other people and find it hard to feel any real sense of self worth and feel the need to prove themselves to others. Monk uses Brett to demonstrate the extent of the challenge some have to reach to reconstruct their lives with determination, and find the right spot between independence and conforming to society, a challenge that is only beginning to be met at the end of the book. Brett’s’ biggest challenge by far is to change his natural response to difficult situations. His first instinct that he has learnt to do over the past 16 years is to run away from his problems and c