Change is a consequential concept portrayed in many distinct, unique ways in Peter Skrzynecki's Immigrant Chronicle, the short BOS narrative Sky High, Esther Hautzig's autobiographical novel The Endless Steppe and Sam Mendes' film American Beauty. All of these texts, however, convey the notion that change is a continual and inevitable process of transition that is instigated by a number of different factors that can result in beneficial and deleterious consequences.

Skrzynecki vividly depicts the beneficial impact change is capable of having in Feliks Skrzynecki, a tribute to his "gentle father." The poet delineates a resilient, stoic man through his admiring tone- "Five years of forced labour in Germany did not dull the softness of his blue eyes...I never once heard him complain", and contrasts his awe for his father with his own feelings of alienation and separation from his father, heightened by the humorous hyperbole...