Life results in lessons leading to discovery while literature provides us with a vehicle to explore life's experiences. Such topics lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities and further actions and responsibilities. This is society’s overall function. Through the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost and the picture book "The Lost Thing" by Shaun Tan, the audience can explore the experience of discovery. The poem, “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost presents his ideas of barriers between people, communication, friendship and the sense of safety that people acquire from building barriers. Frost examines the way in which others interact amongst each other and how society functions as a whole. In Frost’s perspective, the world often expresses challenges of isolation, this in turn means that man has difficulty communicating and relating to fellow members of society. Frost has taken an ordinary incident of mending a wall between his neighbor’s and his own property which has eventually become a ritual in which expresses meditation on the division between human beings. Frost uses metaphors such as “something there is that doesn’t love a wall” to express the physical and mental barriers. The wall is a symbol resembling the rigid structure of our society and the fact that the wall seems to break every year suggests that nature is against man-made objects and ornaments and rituals that fit into place with the aphorism, “good fences make good neighbors”. Frost has maintained this literal meaning of physical barriers representing metaphors of the physical barriers separating the neighbors and also their friendship. He also uses the paradox of “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” “Good fences make good neighbors” to show the irony behind the experience of two people working together should establish a bond between the each other. This is a sym