Change is always there, for better or for worse. It’s always there, because nothing is ever or will be permanent. Change is a never ending process that will be with us for eternity. The short stories Refugee 1944 by Maria Lewitt and Coming of Age in Australia by John J. Encarnacão along with a chosen piece of related material, A Soldier’s Cemetery, a poem by John William Streets show this concept of dynamic and constant change in great depth. In the time period of Refugee 1944, war was everywhere in the world; there was just no way to escape it. However, there were symbols of hope scattered around, in the form of flowers and trees, and it gave the people the courage to live through it all. A Soldier’s Cemetery relates this text through its historical context, namely World War II. In Coming of Age in Australia, the author was adapting and growing up in a country that was changing at the same time. Though things were hard, he made it out in the end a changed man. A Soldier’s Cemetery relates to this through its themes of change through fighting. Refugee 1944 was set during World War II. A girl and her family are being migrated along with the rest of their town, and they have no idea where they are going or what’s going to happen to them. The only possessions they have with them are the aunt’s suitcase, which carries a few pieces from their previous life. From the very first paragraph; ‘Fritz was his name. I couldn’t help knowing it” pg 95; there is an atmosphere of hopelessness and pain. The story is filled is filled of thoughts where hope for further survival was disappearing, and with images of tanks and explosions ploughing fields along with ugly burned out houses. However, an old tree withstood it all, all the horror and gruesomeness of the war. It stood as a lone symbol of hope and beauty. It was standing up while everything around it had fallen, and for this fact, it showed the refugees that even they could survi