This shows how Josie doesn’t feel that she identifies with her family and culture. This issue is then resolved in the last scene because the Italian Tomato Day celebration is then shown in full colour, and Josie is wilfully participating, unlike in the opening scene. This shows how messages are portrayed and that problems are solved in the movie. Throughout the whole movie the technique of voice overs done by Josie are giving the audience a first-hand experience, and “tour” of her life, giving us an insight on her deepest thoughts, first love, and family
Josie’s involvement in Tomato Day, a distinct part of Italian culture parallels the postcard for Skrzynecki. Josie strongly believes that her family’s expectations of her prevent her from immersing herself in Australian society, “This might be where I come from, but do I really belong here? That’s the past, and you can’t let the past run your life.” The use of rhetorical question examplifies the confusion felt by Josie and helps the reader understand the overwhelming difficulty of bridging two cultures. By the end of her journey Josie has an epiphany that is similar to the ‘lone tree’ in the postcard speaking to Peter. Josie realises that her heritage is a part of who she is, “I know now that what’s important is who I feel I am”.
‘Perceptions of belonging are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and in social contexts’ Individuals often face challenges of overcoming multiple barriers of not belonging due to their cultural or historical background that highly affects them from being accepted, as well as the concept of trying to adopt with people or the environment surrounding them. These notions are portrayed in Jane Harrisons play ‘Rainbow’s End’ and Claude Mckay’s poem ‘America’. Both of these texts represent perceptions of belonging through cultural contexts. In Jane Harrison’s play ‘Rainbow’s End’ it explores an isolated indigenous family that are determined in improving their sense belonging within the environment they foster. The text presents techniques from each character in order to understand Harrison’s interpretations of the differences between cultures.
During this phase the perpetrator gains access to the child, engages him or her, and conveys to the child that the behavior is acceptable. The engagement phase occurs in Bastard Out of Carolina because of Glen’s marriage to Bone’s mother Anney which gives him access to Bone. Glen’s lack of love from his own family and his desire to have Anney all to his self is what leads him to abuse Bone. Glen has always had a temper but his temper changes to rage which fuels the abuse. What conveys the behavior as acceptable most to Bone is the way her mother learns about the abuse and refuses to leave Glen.
In the auto-biographical novel "Red Scarf Girl" by Ji-li Jiang, the protagonist Ji-li, greatly influences her own little world. Because of Ji-li’s actions, her family’s life is changed drastically. Ji-li was taught to put her country above her family. Throughout the story Ji-li's feelings about Mao Zedong continue to evolve. In the beginning she is very pro-revolutionary, but as time passes she realizes that Chairman Mao’s policies are not always correct.
Growth and change often comes about when new stages of experience allow a transition ‘into the new world’. This is illustrated in Educating Rita as Rita grows with knowledge and changes as a result of moving into the world of education and middle-class society. The changes made in Rita’s life include her name, from Susan to Rita after her favourite author. We also see Rita leave her husband Denny and her social class pressures, slowly gain confidence in herself to associate with ‘proper’ students and her views on Frank, her tutor, as well as her attitudes towards her tutorials. Rita desires to ‘know’ and expects Frank to teach her ‘everything’ in order to have choice and direction in her life, ‘I wanna discover meself’.
Looking for Alibrandi Essay -characters in Looking for Alibrandi feel out of place at different times in their lives.- Feeling out of place is a feeling that is associated with the characters throughout the book Looking For Alibrandi. John Barton feels out of place because of the high expectations people have for him. Josie feels out of place because she doesn’t have her father around like her peers at school. Nonna Katia feels out of place because she moved to Australia, from Italy a country where all her family and friends are to where she knew no-one, Josie, the main character, felt extremely out of place at certain times in her life due to several reasons. Josie attends a school of rich and snobby girls so of course Josie attending
How could the personal and social tensions between characters in the plays you have studied be expressed on stage. In your answer refer to the performance styles, techniques and conventions that you could use in staging two texts set for study. The Australian plays ruby moon and a beautiful life explore the personal and social tensions between characters. Both plays present a couple in a moment of crisis, and explore the way social tensions have become personal tensions. Australian audiences are able to understand and appriciate these social tensions which the plays present, and equally, to empathise with the personal tensions presented.
Themes: Culture and Identity Looking for Alibrandi is a powerful struggle of multicultural Australia, and the struggles that each generation of immigrants has with finding their place in Australian society and defining their identity. Josie, Christina, Nonna Katia and in fact all of the characters have a story to tell about culture in Australian society. • What are some of the skills, arts, beliefs and customs of Italian-Australians you see represented in the film? • How are these traditions passed on from generation to generation? • What are some of the customs of Italian-Australians that Josie resents?
Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms offer many advantages for Aboriginal people over traditional court proceedings. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities should be able to implement models in their own communities, which recognise traditional cultural values and traditional structures of decision making.” (Behrendt 1995, p.6) Behrendt also argues that alternative methods of dispute resolution should be developed that embody the cultural values of Indigenous people and are perceived as acceptable by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, these would be ideally and necessarily be developed by the Aboriginal communities themselves. “In Australia, Indigenous peoples recognise that real change in our situation requires a fundamental shift in the structures of power which will allow Indigenous people to regain control over their own lives.” (Poynton 1994, p.68) Dodson who is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner also argues “Genuine change will only occur when there is a genuine redistribution of